Publications of J. Laurence

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 J. Laurence

  • Burkitt, William. The poor man's help, and young man's guide: containing I. Doctrinal instructions for the Right Informing of his Judgment. II. Practical directions for the General Course of his Life. III. Particular advices for the Well-Managing of every Day. With Reference to his I. Natural Actions. II. Civil Imployments. III. Necessary Recreations. IV. Religious Duties. Unto which is added principles of religion, useful to be Known, Believed and Practised, by such as desire to receive the Holy Communion with Benefit and Comfort; with Forms of prayer for Families, and single Persons: also Divine hymns on several Occasions. By W. Burkitt,. The twelfth edition, with additions.. London: printed for J. Laurence at the Angel in the Poultry; J. Nicholson at the King's Arms; J. and B. Sprint at the Bell in Little Britain; and; S. Clift at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheap-Side, near Mercer's-Chapel; and D. Jackson, 1715. ESTC No. T144088. Grub Street ID 191028.