Publications of Matthew Gelliflower

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 Matthew Gelliflower

  • Raleigh, Walter. An abridgment of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the world, in five books. 1. From the creation to Abraham. 2. From Abraham to the destruction of the temple of Solomon. 3. From the destruction of Jerusalem to Philip of Macedon. 4. From Philip of Macedon to the race of Antigonus. 5. From the establishment of Alexander until the conquest of Asia and Macedon by the Romans. Wherein the particular chapters and paragraphs are succinctly abridg'd according to his own method, in the larger volume. To which is added, his Premonition to princes. London: printed for Matthew Gelliflower, at the Black Spread Eagle in Westminster-Hall, 1698. ESTC No. R32268. Grub Street ID 114999.