Publications of Thomas Chard

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 Chard

  • Babington, Gervase. A briefe conference betwixt mans frailtie and faith. VVherin is declared the true vse, and comfort of those blessings pronounced by Christ in the 5. of Mathew, that euery Christian man and woman ought to make and take hold of in their seuerall tentations and conflicts: with a newe addition of some comfort against the death of friends, together with a direction to other strength against other our frailties, noted in the booke vpon the Lords Praier. Laid downe in this plaine order of dialogue, to helpe, if it please God, the conceit and feeling of the simpliest. B Geruase Babington. At London: Printed by Thomas Este for Thomas Chard,, 1590. ESTC No. S110419. Grub Street ID 130474.