Publications of I. Busby

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 I. Busby

  • Norden, John. The surueiors dialogue, very profitable for all men to peruse, but especially for all gentlemen, or any other farmar, or husbandman, that shall either haue occasion, or be willing to buy or sell lands: as in the ready and perfect surueying of them, with the manner and methode of keeping a court of suruey with many excellent rules, and familiar tables to that purpose. As also, the true and right vse of the manuring of grounds, or occupation thereof, as well in the lords, as in the tenants: being the true facultie of surueying of all manner of lands and tenements &c. Now newly imprinted. And by the same author inlarged, and a sixt booke newly added, of a familiar and pleasant conference, betweene a purchacer, and a surueyor of lands; of the true vse of both, being very needfull for all such as are to purchase lands, vvhether it be in fee simple, or othervvise by lease. Diuided into sixe bookes by I.N. London: printed [by William Stansby] for I. Busby, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstanes Church yard in Fleetstreet, 1610. ESTC No. S113321. Grub Street ID 133061.