Publications of Abraham Vele

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 Abraham Vele

  • Bullinger, Heinrich. The Christen state of matrymonye, wherein housebandes and wyues maye lerne to kepe house together wyth loue. The original of holy wedlok: wha[n], wher, how, [and] of whom it was intituted [and] ordeined: what it is: how it ought to proceade: what be the occasio[n]s, frut and commodities thereof. Contraryewyse: how shameful [and] horrible a thi[n]g whoredom and aduoutry is: how one ought also to chose him a mete [and] conuenient spouse to kepe and increase the mutual loue, trueth and dewty of wedloke: and how maryed folkes should bringe vp theyr children in the feare of God. Set forthe by Myles Couerdale. [Imprinted at London: By Nycholas Hyll for Abraham Vele, M.D.L.II. [1552]]. ESTC No. S122378. Grub Street ID 141929.