Publications of George Svvintoun

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 George Svvintoun

  • Gillespie, George. A treatise of miscellany questions: wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved: for the satisfaction of those, who desire nothing more, then to search for and finde out precious truths, in the controversies of these times. By Mr. George Gillespie, late minister at Edinburgh. Published by Mr. Patrik Gillespie, minister at Glasgovv. Edinburgh: printed by Gedeon Lithgovv, printer to the University of Edinburgh, for George Svvintoun, and are to be sold at his shop at the Kirk style, at the signe of the Angel, 1649. ESTC No. R8829. Grub Street ID 128965.