Publications of M. Bentley

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 M. Bentley

  • Hennepin, Louis. A new discovery of a vast country in America, extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico; with a description of the great lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals. Also, the manners, customs, and languages of the several native Indians; and the advantage of commerce with those different nations. With a continuation, giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c. The taking of Quebec by the English; with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan. Both parts illustrated with maps, and figures, and dedicated to His Majesty K. William. By L. Hennepin, now resident in Holland. To which are added, several new discoveries in North-America, not publish'd in the French edition. London: printed for M. Bentley, J. Tonson, H. Bonwick, T. Goodwin, and S. Manship, 1698. ESTC No. R24981. Grub Street ID 108709.