Publications of Iames Rowbothum

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 Iames Rowbothum

  • Baker, Humfrey. The welspring of sciences, which teacheth the perfecte worke and practise of arithmeticke both in vvhole numbers [and] fractions, with such easie and compendious instruction into the saide art, as hath not heretofore been by any set out nor laboured. Beautified vvith mos necessary rules and questions, not onely profitable for marchauntes, but also for all artificers, as in the table doth plainely appere. Novv nevvely printed and corrected. Sette forth by Humfrey Baker citizen of London. Imprinted at London: by Henry Denham, for Iames Rowbothum, anno Domini. 1564. ESTC No. S90367. Grub Street ID 149756.