Publications of the Cross-Keys

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 the Cross-Keys

  • Quincy, John. Pharmacopoeia officinalis & extemporanea. Or, a complete English dispensatory, in four parts. Containing I. The theory of pharmacy, and the several Processes therein. II. A description of the officinal simples, with their Virtues and Preparations, Galenical and Chymical. III. The officinal compositions, according to the last Alterations of the College; together with some others of Uncommon Efficacy, taken from the most Celebrated Authors. IV. Extemporaneous prescriptions, distributed into Classes suitable to their Intentions in Cure. By John Quincy M.D. The fifth edition, much enlarged and corrected. To which is added, an account of common adulterations of both simples and compounds; ... London: printed for E. Bell at the Cross-Keys and Bible in Cornhill, W. Taylor at the Ship in Paternoster-Row, and J. Obsorn at the Oxford-Arms in Lombard-Street, M.DCC.XXIV. [1724]. ESTC No. N11354. Grub Street ID 1353.