Publications of John Holden

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 John Holden

  • Cowley, Abraham. The guardian; a comedie. Acted before Prince Charls His Highness at Trinity-Colledg in Cambridge, upon the twelfth of March, 1641. Written by Abraham Cowley. London: printed [by Thomas Newcombe] for John Holden at the Anchor in the New-Exchange, 1650. ESTC No. R16344. Grub Street ID 64207.

Author

  • Holden, John. A collection of church-music; consisting of new setts of the common psalm-tunes, with some other pieces; adapted to the several metres in the version authorized by the General Assembly. ... Principally designed for the use of the University of Glasgow. By John Holden, .. Glasgow: printed for, and sold by the author; and also by J. Watt and J. M'Ewan; J. Balfour and T. Phinn, in Edinburgh; and A. Angus and J. Boyle, in Aberdeen, 1766. ESTC No. N44143. Grub Street ID 29661.