Publications of George Fairebeard

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 George Fairebeard

  • Crashaw, William. Englands lamentable complaint to her God. Out of which may bee pickt a prayer for priuate families. Together, with a soueraigne receipt against sinne, the true cause of all our sorrow. As also, a necessarie catechisme, intituled Meate for men; or, A principall seruice of the sacraments. Left as a legacie by that late learned and diuine, W. Crashavv, sometimes pastor at White-Chappell, for a helpe to holinesse and humiliation, in such as desire to liue and dye in the feare and fauour of God. Printed at London: [by B. Alsop and T. Fawcet] for George Fairebeard, at the North doore of the Royall Exchange, 1629. ESTC No. S91561. Grub Street ID 150592.