Publications of Francis. Leach.

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 Francis. Leach.

  • Prynne, William. A legal resolution of two important quæres of general present concernment. Clearly demonstrating from our statute, common and canon laws, the bounden duty of ministers, & vicars of parish churches, to administer the sacraments, as well as preach to their parishioners; with the legal remedies to reclaim them from, or punish and remove them for their wilfull obstinacy in denying the sacraments to them. By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne; to whom these quæres were newly propounded by some clients. London: printed by F[rancis]. L[each]., in the yeare, 1656. ESTC No. R203242. Grub Street ID 80377.

Printed for Francis. Leach.

  • True and ioyfull news from His Maiestie, being a true and exact relation of His Majesties most gratious message and propositions for a treaty to reconcil the differences betweene His Majestie and the Parliament. Presented to both Houses by the right honorable the Earle of Dorset, the Earle of Southampton, and Sir Iohn Culpeper Chancellor of His Majesties Exchequer: on Saterday the 27. of August 1642. Together with the determination and resolution of both Houses in answer to the said message and propositions. Hen Elsyng Cler. Parl. D. Com. Printed at London: for F[rancis]. L[each]. and F[rancis]. C[oles]., 1642. ESTC No. R34673. Grub Street ID 117189.