Publications of Thomas Petyt

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 Thomas Petyt

  • Moulton, Thomas. This is the myrrour or glasse of helth necessary [and] nedeful for euery person to loke in, that wyll kepe their body from the syckenesse of the pestilence, [and] it sheweth how the planettes do raygne in euery houre of the daye and nyghte, with the natures and expocio[n]s of the. xii. monethes of the yere, and shewed the remedies for manye diuers infyrmyties and diseases that hurteth the body of manne. [Imprinted at London: for Thomas Petyt, dwellinge in Paules churche yarde at the sygne of the Maydens head, [before 1546. ESTC No. S94245. Grub Street ID 152558.