Publications of Hen. Hills

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 Hen. Hills

  • Swift, Jonathan. Predictions for the year 1708. Wherein the month and day of the month are set down, ... Written to prevent the people of England from being further impos'd on by vulgar almanack-makers. By Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq;. London: printed and sold by Hen. Hills, 1708. ESTC No. N12428. Grub Street ID 2429.

Sold by Hen. Hills

  • Secker, William. A wedding-Ring fit for the finger: or, the salve of divinity on the sore of humanity. Laid open in a sermon at a wedding in St. Edmonds. By William Secker, Late Preacher of the Gospel. London: printed and sold by Hen. Hills in Black-Fryars, near the Waterside; For the Benefit of the Poor, [1707?]. ESTC No. T104199. Grub Street ID 157753.