Publications of Abel Swalle

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."

Sold by Abel Swalle

  • Molloy, Charles. De jure maritimo et navali: or, A treatise of affairs maritime and of commerce. In three books. The fourth edition enlarged. By Charles Molloy barrister at law. London: printed, and are to be sold by Abel Swalle at the Unicorn at the west end of St. Paul's Church-yard, 1690. ESTC No. R29549. Grub Street ID 112513.

Printed for Abel Swalle

  • Du Pin, Louis Ellies. A new history of ecclesiastical writers: containing an account of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers; a judicious abridgment and catalogue of their works; their various editions, and censures determining the genuine and spurious. Together with a judgment upon their style and doctrine. Also, a compendious history of the councils; with necessary tables to the whole. Written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin, Doctor of the Sorbon. Volume the second, containing the authors that flourished in the fourth age of the Church. London: printed by J. Leake, for Abel Swalle and Tim. Childe, at the Vnicorn at the west-end of St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCXCIII. [1693]. ESTC No. R176029. Grub Street ID 68701.