Publications of Thomas. Heath

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 Thomas. Heath

  • Paracelsus. Medicina diastatica or Sympatheticall mumie: containing, many mysterious and hidden secrets in philosophy and physick. By the construction extraction transplantation and application of microcosmical & spiritual mumie. Teaching the magneticall cure of diseases at distance, &c. Abstracted from the works of Dr. Theophr. Paracelsus: by the labour and industry of Andrea Tentzelius, Phil. & Med. Translated out of the Latine by Ferdinando Parkhurst, Gent. London: printed by T[homas]. Newcomb for T[homas]. Heath, and are to be sold at his shop in Russell-street, neer the Piazza's of Covent-Garden, 1653. ESTC No. R41864. Grub Street ID 123361.