Publications of J. Speidell
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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:
- "printed by x"; or
- "sold by x"; or
- "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,":
- "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 J. Speidell
- New logarithmes. The first inuention whereof, was, by the Honourable Lo: Iohn Nepair Baron of Marchiston, and printed at Edinburg in Scotland, anno: 1614. In whose vse was and is required the knowledge of albraicall [sic] addition and substraction, according to + and - These being extracted from and out of them (they being first ouer seene, corrected, and amended) require not at all any skill in algebra, or Cossike numbers, but may be vsed by euery one that can onely adde and substract, in whole numbers, according to the common or vulgar arithmeticke, without an consideration or respect of + and - By Iohn Speidell, professor of the mathematickes, and are to bee solde at his dwelling house in the fields, on the back side of Drury Lane, betweene Princes streete and the new play-house. [London: printed by E. Allde? for J. Speidell], 1620. ESTC No. S95311. Grub Street ID 153340.