Publications of Richard Ballard

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 Richard Ballard

  • Antoniszoon, Cornelis. The safegard of sailers, or great rutter, con[tai]ning the courses, distances, depthes, sounding[s,] floudes and ebbes, vvith the markes for the entrings of sundrie harboroughs, both of England, Fraunce, Spaine, Ireland, Flaunders, and the soundes of Denmarke, with other necessarie rules of common nauigation: Translated out of Dutch into English, by Robert Norman, hydrographer. At London: Printed by Iohn Windet, and Thomas Iudso[n] for Richard Ballard, Anno Domini. 1584. ESTC No. S112135. Grub Street ID 131899.