Publications of C. Crownfield

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 by C. Crownfield

  • Chapman, John. Phlegon examined critically and impartially. In answer to the late Dissertation and defence of Dr. Sykes. To which is added a postscript, explaining a passage in Tertullian. By John Chapman ... Cambridge: printed at the University Press for the author, and sold by C. Crownfield and W. Thurlbourn, 1739. ESTC No. N36712. Grub Street ID 24672.

Printed for C. Crownfield

  • Garnett, John. A sermon preached at St. Mary's church in Cambridge, before the University, The Right Honorable Sir William Lee, Knt. Lord Chief Justice of England, and Sir Lawrence Carter, Knt. One of the Barons of the Exchequer; at the assizes held there July 14. 1741. Published at the Request of the High-Sheriff and Gentlemen of the Grand Jury. By J. Garnett, B. D. Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Chaplain to His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, And Preacher at Whitehall. Cambridge: printed by J. Bentham Printer to the University, for C. Crownfield and W. Thurlbourn, Booksellers in Cambridge; J. Beecroft at the Bible and Crown in Lombard Street, London; and Mr. Hildyard at York, MDCCXLI. [1741]. ESTC No. T10308. Grub Street ID 156737.