Publications of John Sweeting

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 for John Sweeting

  • Shepard, Thomas. The sincere convert discovering the small number of true beleevers, and the great difficulty of saving conversion : wherein is excellently and plainly opened these choice and divine principles : viz. 1. that there is a God, and this God is most glorious, 2. that God made man in a blessed estate, 3. mans misery by his fall, 4. Christ the only redeemer by price, 5. that few are saved, and that with difficulty, 6. that mans perdition is of himself : whereto is now added the saints jewel, shewing how to apply the promises, and the souls invitation unto Jesus Christ / by Tho. Sheppard ... ; corrected and much amended by the author. London: Printed by J. Macock, for John Sweeting .., 1657. ESTC No. R10130. Grub Street ID 58527.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by John Sweeting

  • Woolnor, Henry. The true originall of the soule. Proving both by divine and naturall reason, that the production of mans soule is neither by creation nor propagation, but a certain meane way between both. Wherein the doctrine of originall sinne, and the purity of Christs incarnation, is also more fully cleared then hath been heretofore published. By H.W. B.D. London: printed, and are to be sold by John Sweeting at the Angell in Popes-head-Alley, 1642. ESTC No. R27680. Grub Street ID 110817.