Publications of e author:

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 e author:

  • Free, John. A plan for founding in England, at the expence of a great empress, a free university for the reception not only of her proper subjects, but also people of all nations and religions; particularly the borderers upon her own dominions. To which there will be added, a sketch of an universal liturgy for the use of the foreign students. In English, Latin, and French. By John Free, Doctor in Divinity, Vicar of East Coker, in Somersetshire, Sir John Leman's Lecturer at St. Mary-Hill, in London, and Lecturer of Newington-Butts. The second edition.. London: printed for the author: and sold by W. Sandby, in Fleet-Street; S. Parker, in Oxford; J. Almon, in Piccadilly; J. Williams, in Fleet-Street; M. Cooke, at the Royal Exchange; and by the author at Newiugton [sic] Butts, 1766. ESTC No. N11619. Grub Street ID 1622.