Publications of James Flesher

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 James Flesher

  • Collins, John. An introduction to merchants accounts, containing five distinct questions or accounts. The I An easie question to enter beginners, with instructions to post, stated two severall wayes, upon severall suppositions. 2 A question of a merchant, adventuring a stock or cargazoon with the purser or sopracargo of a ship, who sells the adventure, and furnisheth returns, stated two severall ways. 3 A question of factorage or goods received by consignation and returns shipt off, with an analysis thereto belonging. 4 A question of a ships fraightment, with instruction to keep ship accounts. 5 A question of double exchanges. Compiled by John Collins student in the Mathematicks, late professor of writing, merchants accounts, &c. And may serve as an appendix to the Merchants Myrrour lately reprinted. London: printed by James Flesher for Nicholas Bourn, at the South entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1653. ESTC No. R10017. Grub Street ID 58415.