Publications of Abraham Acher

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 Abraham Acher

  • Burnet, Gilbert. Some letters, containing an account of what seemed most remarkable in travelling through Switzerland, Italy, some parts of Germany, &c., in the years 1685. and 1686. Written by G. Burnet, D.D. to the Hoble R.B. The second edition, corrected, and altered in some places by the author. To which is added, an appendix, containing some remarks on Switzerland and Italy, writ by a person of quality, and communicated to the author. Together with a table of the contents of each letter. Rotterdam: printed for Abraham Acher, bookseller by the Exchange, 1687. ESTC No. R25315. Grub Street ID 109016.