Publications of Thomas Lee

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 Thomas Lee

  • Bennet, William. A concise view of religious worship, and of the nature and order of New Testament churches. By the Rev William Bennet. Hull: printed by Thomas Lee and Co., M.DCC.XCI. [1791]. ESTC No. T86749. Grub Street ID 306862.

Printed for Thomas Lee

  • Bacon, Francis. The novum organum of Sir Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans. Epitomiz'd: for a clearer understanding of his Natural history. Translated and taken out of the Latine by M.D. B.D. London: printed for Thomas Lee at the Turks-head in Fleetstreet, 1677. ESTC No. R29604. Grub Street ID 112564.