Publications of H.P. and

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 H.P. and

  • Jones, John. Practice improv'd: or, New practice. Containing various new methods for the more expeditious casting up merchandise than any extant. By John Jones, writing-master and accomptant. Recommended by the ingenious Mr. Snow in London. Addressed to the merchants of Bristol. London: printed by H.P. and sold by Joseph Marshall, at the Bible in Newgate-Street; Rob. Powney, in the Strand; And. Bell, in Cornhill; and C. King, in Westminster-Hall. Also by the author, at his school in Adam and Eve-Lane, or at his dwelling-house on St. Michael's-Hill, Bristol, MDCCXX. [1720]. ESTC No. N65065. Grub Street ID 46996.

Printed for H.P. and

  • A Looking-glass for children, being a narrative of God's gracious dealings with some little children; recollected by Henry Jessey in his life-time. Together with with sundry seasonable lessons and instructions to youth, calling them early to remember their creator: written by Abraham Chear, late of Plymouth. The fourth edition, enlarg'd. To which is added many other poems very suitable. As also some elegies on departed friends made by the said Abraham Chear. All now faithfully gathered together, for the benefit of young and old, by H.P. London: Printed for H.P. and are to be Sold by the Booksellers, [1673]. ESTC No. R42778. Grub Street ID 123973.