Publications of John. Hancock

Note: The following printer, bookseller, or publisher lists are works in progress. They are generated from title page imprints and may reproduce false and misleading attributions or contain errors.

What does "printed by" mean? How to read the roles ascribed to people in the imprints.

In terms of the book trades, the lists below are sorted into up to four groups where: the person is designated in the imprint as having a single role:

  1. "printed by x"; or
  2. "sold by x"; or
  3. "printed for x" or "published by x";

or as having the seller and printer roles in combination, or an absence of the printer's name following "London: printed:" or "London: printed,":

  1. "printed and sold by x"; or "printed for and sold by x"; or "printed by and for x"; or "printed: and sold by x"; or "printed, and sold by x";  and so on.

On this last point, trade publishers may seem to have "printed" or "published" the work, though they did not own the copyright. The lists below reflect only the information on the imprint, except where ESTC provides extra information.

See also "The Meaning of the Imprint."

Printed for John. Hancock

  • Brooks, Thomas. Apples of gold for young men and vvomen, and a crown of glory for old men and women. Or, The happiness of being good betimes, and the honour of being an old disciple. Clearly and fully discovered, and closely and faithfully applied. Also, the young mans objections answered and the old mans doubts resolved. By Thomas Brooks heretofore preacher of the Gospel at St. Margarets New Fish street-hill. The eighth edition corrected.. London: printed by W[illiam]. R[awlins]. for J[ohn]. Hancock, to be sold at his shop over-against Gresham-Colledge in Bishops-gate-Street next to the White-Lyon, 1668. ESTC No. R225412. Grub Street ID 98596.