Publications of R.B. for

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 R.B. for

  • Mede, Joseph. The key of the Revelation, searched and demonstrated out of the naturall and proper charecters of the visions. With a coment thereupon, according to the rule of the same key, published in Latine by the profoundly learned Master Joseph Mede B.D. late fellow of Christs College in Cambridge, for their use to whom God hath given a love and desire of knowing and searching into that admirable prophecie. Translated into English by Richard More of Linley in the Countie of Salop. Esquire, one of the Burgesses in this present convention of Parliament. With a præface written by Dr Twisse now prolocutor in the present Assembly of Divines. Printed at London: by R.B. for Phil. Stephens, at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the gilded Lion, 1643. ESTC No. R12329. Grub Street ID 60527.

Printed for R.B. for

  • Browne, Simon. Uncommon blessings of Providence, how to be improv'd by a sinful nation. A sermon preach'd February the 17th 1708/9. Being a day of publick Thanksgiving ... By Simon Browne,. London: printed for R.B. for the author, and sold by R. Sympson, [1709]. ESTC No. N51008. Grub Street ID 35028.