Publications of John Speidell
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:
- "printed by x"; or
- "sold by x"; or
- "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,":
- "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 John Speidell
- New logarithmes. The first inuention whereof, was, by the Honourable Lo: Iohn Nepair Baron of Marchiston, and printed at Edinburg in Scotland, anno: 1614. In whose vse was and is required the knowledge of albraicall [sic] addition and subtraction, according to + and - Thes being extracted from and out of them (they being first ouer seene, corrected, and amended) require not at all any skill in algebra, or cossike numbers, but may be vsed by euery one that can onely adde and subtract, in whole numbers, according to the common or vulgar arithmeticke, without any consideration or respect of + and - By Iohn Speidell, professor of the mathematickes, and are to bee solde at his dwelling house in the Fields, on the backe side of Drury Lane, betweene Princes streete and the new playhouse. [London: Printed by Edward Allde? for John Speidell, 1624]. ESTC No. S111252. Grub Street ID 131134.