Publications of Ri: Davis

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 Ri: Davis

  • Boyle, Robert. Some considerations touching the usefulnesse of experimental natural philosophy. Propos'd in a familiar discourse to a friend, by way of invitation to the study of it. By the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society. Oxford: printed by Hen: Hall printer to the University, for Ri: Davis, Anno Dom: 1664 [i.e. 1671]. ESTC No. R23467. Grub Street ID 105981.