Publications of David Maxwell

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.

Printers (owners of the type and printing presses, and possibly owners of the copyright) may be identified by the words printed by, but printed by does not universally designate a person who is a printer by trade. Booksellers may be identified by the words sold by. Booksellers may also be identified by the words printed for, but nothing should be concluded in this regard without further evidence, especially since "printed for" could signify that the named person was a distributor (or what we might call a wholesaler) rather than a copyright holder. Copyright owners may also be identified by the words printed for. Trade publishers, who distributed books and pamphlets but did not own the copyright or employ a printer—and were not printers themselves—might be identified by the words printed and sold by. Furthermore, works from this period often display false imprints, whether to evade copyright restrictions, to conceal the name of the copyright holders, or to dupe unwitting customers. Ultimately, one must proceed with caution in using the following lists: designations in the imprints may not reliably reflect the actual trades or roles of the people named, and the formulas used in imprints do not consistently mean the same thing.

David Foxon discussed the "meaning of the imprint" in his Lyell Lecture delivered at Oxford in March 1976, with particular attention to "publishers" in the eighteenth-century context:

The fullest form of an imprint is one which names three people, or groups of people:
     London: printed by X (the printer), for Y (the bookseller who owned the copyright), and sold by Z.
In the eighteenth century the printer's name is rarely given, at least in works printed in London, and the form is more commonly:
     London: printed for Y, and sold by Z.
Very often in this period, and particularly for pamphlets, it is further abbreviated to:
     London: printed and sold by Z.
It is this last form which is my present concern. Z is usually what the eighteenth century called 'a publisher', or one who distributes books and pamphlets without having any other responsibility—he does not own the copyright or employ a printer, or even know the author.

He cautions, "The only way to avoid being misled is to regard any imprint which says a book is printed for a publisher as meaning it is sold by him" (5).

D. F. McKenzie coined the term "trade publisher" for these publishers in his Sandars Lectures, also in 1976, on the grounds that their principal role was to publish on behalf of other members of the book trade (Treadwell 100).

Michael Treadwell cautions that "In this period the imprint 'London: Printed and sold by A.B.' normally means 'Printed at London, and sold by A.B.' and must not be taken to mean that A.B. is a printer in the absence of other evidence." Further, "The imprint 'published by' occurs only rarely in Wing and is almost always associated with the name of a trade publisher" (104). While there are exceptions to the rule, it is "certain," he explains, "that anyone who made a speciality of distributing works for others will show a far higher proportion than normal of imprints in one of the 'sold by' forms" (116), which appear in the imprint as "sold by," "printed and sold by," or "published by" (104). Treadwell gives Walter Kettilby as an example of "a fairly typical copyright-owning bookseller" (106)—his role is almost always designated by the phrase "printed for" on imprints.

A final caution: publisher is a word that should be used with some deliberation. Samuel Johnson defines it simply as "One who puts out a book into the world," but "published by" rarely appears on the imprint until later in the eighteenth century, and then primarily associated with newspapers and pamphlets. Treadwell observes that John Dunton names only five publishers among the 200 binders and booksellers in his autobiographical Life and Errors (1705) wherein he undertakes "to draw the Character of the most Eminent [Stationers] in the Three Kingdoms" (100). Treadwell also remarks, however, that "in law, anyone who offered a work for sale 'published' it. In this sense every work had one or more 'publishers', and every bookseller, mercury, and hawker was a 'publisher'" (114).

See:

  • Terry Belanger, "From Bookseller to Publisher: Changes in the London Book Trade, 1750–1850," in Book Selling and Book Buying. Aspects of the Nineteenth-Century British and North American Book Trade, ed. Richard G. Landon (Chicago: American Library Association, 1978).
  • Bricker, Andrew Benjamin. "Who was 'A. Moore'? The Attribution of Eighteenth-Century Publications with False and Misleading Imprints," in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 110.2 (2016).
  • John Dunton, The Life and Errors of John Dunton (London: Printed for S. Malthus, 1705).
  • John Feather, "The Commerce of Letters: The Study of the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade," Eighteenth-Century Studies 17 (1984).
  • David Foxon, Pope and the Early Eighteenth-Century Book Trade, ed. James McLaverty (Oxford University Press, 1991).
  • Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language, (printed for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755).
  • D.F. McKenzie, The London Book Trade in the Later Seventeenth Century (Sandars lectures in bibliography, 1977).
  • Michael Treadwell, "London Trade Publishers 1675–1750," The Library sixth series, vol. 4, no. 2 (1982).

Printed by David Maxwell

  • John Chrysostom. The golden book of St. John Chrysostom, concerning the education of children. Translated out of the Greek by I.E. esq;. London: printed by D[avid]. M[axwell]. for G[abriel]. Bedel and T[homas]. Collins, at the Middle Temple gate in Fleet-street, 1659. ESTC No. R171328. Grub Street ID 65608.
  • Warren, Edmund, minister of the Gospel in Colchester. The Jevvs Sabbath antiquated, and the Lords Day instituted by divine authority. Or, The change of the Sabbath from the last to the first day of the week, asserted and maintained by Scripture-arguments, and testimonies of the best antiquity; with a refutation of sundry objections raised against it. The sum of all comprized in seven positions. By Edm. Warren minister of the Gospel in Colchester. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy. London: printed by David Maxwel, for W. Weekly of Ipswich, and are to be sold by John Rothwel, at the Fountain in Cheapside, and also by Nath. Web, and Will. Grantham, at the Black Bear in Pauls Church-yard, 1659. ESTC No. R204006. Grub Street ID 81034.
  • Mercurius veridicus. Communicating some choice intelligence domestick and forreign. London [England]: Printed by D[avid]. Maxwell, living in Thames-street, near Baynards-Castle, [1660]. ESTC No. P1209. Grub Street ID 55046.
  • A catalogue of the peers of the kingdom of England, according to their birth and creations. London: printed by D. Maxwel., 1660. ESTC No. R212491. Grub Street ID 88081.
  • Sedgwick, Obadiah. The parable of the prodigal. Containing, The riotous prodigal, or the sinners aversion from God. Returning prodigal, or the penitents conversion to God. Prodigals acceptation, or favourable entertainment with God. Delivered in divers sermons on Luke 15. from vers. 11. to vers. 24. By that faithfull servant of Jesus Christ Obadiah Sedgwick, B.D. Perfected by himself, and perused by those whom he intrusted with the publishing of his works. London: printed by D. Maxwel, for Sa. Gellibrand, at the Ball in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1660. ESTC No. R203523. Grub Street ID 80616.
  • Wren, Matthew. An abandoning of the Scotish Covenant by Matthew the Lord Bishop of Ely. London: printed by D. Maxwell for Timothy Garthwait at the Kings Head in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1662. ESTC No. R11962. Grub Street ID 60179.
  • Church of England.. Articles given by [...] and delivered to the church-wardens, to be considered and answered in his visitation holden in the year of our Lord God [...] whereunto the said churchwardens and side-men are upon their oathes to answer truly and particularly. London: printed by Da. Maxwell, neer Baynards Castle in Thames-street, 1662. ESTC No. R14201. Grub Street ID 62248.
  • A letter formerly written to Mr. Tichborne and others in the Tower to minde them of death. And in order thereto, to publish a repentant declaration for the greatnesse of the sin of rebellion. And by reason it lay ten dayes and could not be delivered, it is now published on this occasion, whilst others go on plotting treasons on the same principles to undeceive and restrain men from these treasonable practises. London: printed by D Maxwell, 1662. ESTC No. R221713. Grub Street ID 95822.
  • Wase, Christopher. Dictionarium minus: a compendious dictionary English-Latin & Latin-English. Wherein the classical words of both languages are aptly rendred. And for the more sufficient direction of students in I. Construing: the divers significations are distinguished, according to different phrases, and tropical or figurative sense is set after the proper and natural. II. Pharsing: the various constructions are specified. III. Making Latines: the termination of the genitive is added to the noun, the infinitive to the verb, and the English neuter is differenced from the active. Also the received names of herbs, plants, &c. are largely inserted, divers proverbs explain'd, and many antiquities illustrated. By Christopher Wase, M.A. Master of the Free-School in Tunbridge. London: printed by Da: Maxwell, 1662. ESTC No. R24601. Grub Street ID 108372.
  • Molliere, Monsieur de la. A Portuguez grammar: or, rules shewing the true and perfect way to learn the said language. Newly collected in English and French, for the use of either of each nation that desire to learn the same. By Monsieur de la Molliere, a French gentleman. London: printed by Da[vid]. Maxwell for Samuel Brown, at the sign of the Queens Arms, by the little north-door of Saint Pauls Church, 1662. ESTC No. R179325. Grub Street ID 70794.
  • Le Duke, John. Arithmetical questions, or A plain and familiar way to common arithmetick. Containing the most necessary and fundamental rules of the said art: digested into a very easie method. Set forth for the help and advantage of those that desire to attain the knowledge of that art. By John Le Duke, French School Master in Colchester. The first part. London: printed by Da[vid]. Maxwell, and are to be sold by Sa[muel]. Gellibrand at the Ball in St. Pauls Church-yard, London; and by William Hall, bookseller in Colchester, 1663. ESTC No. R179395. Grub Street ID 70833.
  • Yonge, William. Englands shame: or The unmasking of a politick atheist: being a full and faithful relation of the life and death of that grand impostor Hugh Peters. Wherein is set forth his whole comportment, policies, and principles, exercised from the ingress, in the progress, and to th egress of his unhappy life. By William Yonge, Dr. Med. London: printed by Da. Maxwel, for Theodore Sadler, next door to the Golden Dolphin, over against Exeter House in the Strand, 1663. ESTC No. R15490. Grub Street ID 63425.
  • Bayfield, Robert. Tes iatrikes kartos: or A treatise de morborum capitis essentiis & pronosticis. Adorned with above three hundred choice and rare observations: many of them selected out of the most eminent and renowned authors now extant amongst us. By Robert Bayfield, physician. London: printed by D[avid]. Maxwel, and are to be sold by Richard Tomlins, at the Sun and Bible in Pie-corner, 1663. ESTC No. R35304. Grub Street ID 117722.
  • N. B. The history of Athanasius, with the rise, growth, and down-fall of the Arian heresie by Nathaniel Bacon Esq. London: printed by D. Maxwell, 1664. ESTC No. R10044. Grub Street ID 58443.
  • Trigge, Thomas. Calendarium astrologicum: or An almanack for the year of our Lord, 1664. being bissextile, or leap-year. Containing the state of the year, Eclipses, high-water, weather, terms, with their returns, &c. As also, diverse excellent rules for country-men, (that are astrologically inclined) teaching them how to improve horses, andother lesser animals, both in colour and kind, from the time of their generetion. Vnto which is added a description of the most eminent roads in England, from town to town, and the certain time of any mart or fair, happening in any o them. By Thomas Trigge, gent. student in physick and astrologie. London: printed by D[avid]. Maxwell[, E. Alsop, and R. Wood] for the Company of Stationers, 1664. ESTC No. R34318. Grub Street ID 116850.
  • Mayo, Richard. Krypteuchologia: or, A plain ansvver to this practical question, What course may a Christian take to have his heart quickned and enlarged in the duty of secret prayer? By Richard Mayo. late of Kingston upon Thames. London: printed by D. Maxwel for Thomas Parkhurst, at the sign of the Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside, 1664. ESTC No. R9146. Grub Street ID 129251.
  • Drelincourt, Charles. The Protestants triumph. A discourse wherein the excellency, divinity, antiquity, certainty, &c. of our religion is asserted against the papists. Being an exact answer to all the sophistical arguments daily made use of by them, for the deluding and perverting ignorant an unstable souls. Written in French by that grave, judicious, and learned divine Mr. Charles Drelincourt, minister of Gods Word in Paris. Englished by S.A. Gent. London: printed by D[avid]. Maxwel for Tho[mas]. Parkhurst at the Three Crowns over against the Great Conduit, at the lower end of Cheapside, 1664. ESTC No. R31368. Grub Street ID 114164.