Publications of J.B. 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 J.B. and

  • Modern history, or, A monethly account of all considerable occurrences, civil, ecclesiastical, and military; with all natural, and philosophical productions and transactions. London: printed by J.B. and are to be sold by Randall Taylor, near Stationers-Hall in Ludgate-street, MDCLXXXVII [1687-1689]. ESTC No. P1683. Grub Street ID 55467.

Printed for J.B. and

  • Instructions of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the right Honourable Francis Lord Willoughby of Parham, lord lieutenant of the county of Lincolne, and to the rest of the committee, ordered by both the said houses to goe into that county, and there put in execution these insuing instructions, for the setling & preserving the peace of that county and city, and the parts adjoyning [sic] John Browne Cler, Parliamentorum. [London]: Septemb. 30. London printed for J.B. and are to be sold by John Wright, 1642. ESTC No. R17754. Grub Street ID 69609.