Publications of Benj. Crayle

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 Benj. Crayle

  • Heath, James. Englands chronicle: or, The lives & reigns of the kings and queens from the time of Julius Caesar to the present reign of K. William and Q. Mary: containing the remarkable transactions and revolutions in peace and war, both at home and abroad, as they relate to this kingdom with the wars, policies, religion and custom, success and misfortunes, as well of the the antient Britains, as Roman, Saxon, Danish, and Norman conquerors, with copper cuts, and whatever else is conduceable to the illustration of history. By J. Heath. London: printed for Benj. Crayle, at the Peacock and Bible at the west end of St. Pauls, N. Bodington in Duck-lane, and G. Conyers at the Ring on Ludgate-hill, 1689. ESTC No. R29472. Grub Street ID 112446.