Publications of Tho: Firby

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 Tho: Firby

  • Vaughan, Rice. First-fruits and tenths out of ecclesiastical livings, according to their present improved values, no present for Caesar: or, The arithmetick of Dr. Thomas Bradley, in his book, called A present for Cæsar of 100000 l. in hand, and 50000 l. a year, examined, and found not t amount (by inversion) to 000000 l. 00 s. 01 d. in hand, and 00000 l. 00 s. 05 d. a year. By occasion whereof is handled the nature original, and measure of first-fruits, and the nature and original also of tenths, by the law of God, by the canons of the Jewish doctors, by the Popes law, (commonly called canon law) and by the common and statute laws of England; which with one consent say, that the doctors present or gift, will not make room for him to bring him before his Highnesse. D.B.R.V. O.G.J.E. London: printed by F. Liach, for Tho: Firby, near Grays-Inn-gate in Holbourn, 1657. ESTC No. R34721. Grub Street ID 117233.