Publications of Edward Thornton

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 Edward Thornton

  • Bulstrode, Richard. Memoirs and reflections upon the reign and government of King Charles the Ist. and K. Charles the IId. Containing an account of several remarkable facts not mentioned by other historians of those times: wherein the character of the royal martyr, and of King Charles II. are vindicated from fanatical aspersions. Written by Sir Richard Bulstrode, resident at Brussels to the court of Spain, from King Charles II. and envoy from King James II. till the revolution 1688. Now first published from his original manuscript. London: printed for Edward Thornton bookseller in Sherborne in the county of Dorset, 1721. ESTC No. N72259. Grub Street ID 52056.