Publications of Laurence Hayes

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 Laurence Hayes

  • Shakespeare, William. The most excellent historie of the merchant of Venice. VVith the extreame crueltie of Shylocke the Iewe towards the said merchant, in cutting a just pound of his flesh: and the obtaining of Portia by the choice of three chests. As it hath beene divers times acted by the Lord Chamberlaine his servants. Written by William Shakespeare. London: Printed by M[armaduke] P[arsons] for Laurence Hayes, and are to be sold at his shop on Fleetbridge, 1637. ESTC No. S111192. Grub Street ID 131094.