Publications of James Astwood

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 Astwood

  • Ramsay, William, B.D. Maromah, the Lord of Rome the Antichrist, finally and fully discover'd: his name and the number of his name, hitherto wonderfully hid in the words of Solomon and Isaiah, but now reveal'd beyond all scruple and doubt: to the most seasonable comfort of all the faithful: to the everlasting confusion of Pope and popish ministers: to the vindication, praise and encouragement of all Protestant witnesses, peculiarly the happy discoverers of the late most horrid Popish Plot, being a second sermon on Prov. xiv. 25. preacht in Istleworth Church, on Novemb. 16. 1679. By William Ramsay, B.D. lecturer in Istleworth, chaplain to the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Butler Earl of Ossory, &c. London: printed by J[ames]. A[stwood]. for Benj. Billingsley at the Printing-Press within the south-west piazza of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1680. ESTC No. R10342. Grub Street ID 58723.
  • Mather, Cotton. Early piety, exemplified in the life and death of Mr. Nathaniel Mather, who having become at the age of nineteen, an instance of more than common learning and virtue, changed earth for Heaven, Oct. 17. 1688. Whereto are added some discourses on the true nature, the great reward, and the best season of such a walk with God as he left a pattern of. London: printed by J[ames]. Astwood, and are to be sold by J[ohn]. Dunton at the black Raven in the Poultrey over against the Compter, 1689. ESTC No. R180442. Grub Street ID 71482.
  • Mather, Cotton. Right thoughts in sad hours, representing the comforts and the duties of good men under all their afflictions; and particularly, that one, the untimely death of children: in a sermon delivered at Charls-town, New England; under a fresh experience of that calamity. London: printed by James Astwood, 1689. ESTC No. R220434. Grub Street ID 94805.
  • Hudson, Samuel. David's labour and rest: or, A discourse on Acts XIII. v. 36. Preached at the funeral of Mr. Richard Shute, the late most reverend pastor of the congregation of Stow-Market in Suffolk. Together with some memorable remarques upon the deceased, for the benefit and use of tha parish. By Samuel Hudson, rector of Earles Stonham. London: printed by James Astwood for Thomas Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside, near Mercers-Chappel, 1689. ESTC No. R4246. Grub Street ID 123781.

Printed for James Astwood

  • The present and future condition of Germany. Giving a full account 1. Of the Turks advance into Christendom, and the grounds of those disturbances in Hungary, which occasion'd it. 2. A description of the city Vienna, and the siege thereof. 3. The Grand Seigniors nativity calculated, and the success of this expedition probably conjectured. 4. Several predictions relating to the present posture of affairs in Europe. London: printed for J[ames] A[stwood] and entred according to order, 1683. ESTC No. R10214. Grub Street ID 58609.
  • An account of several new inventions and improvements now necessary for England, in a discourse by way of letter to the Earl of Marlbourgh [sic], relating to building of our English shipping, planting of oaken timber in the forrests, apportioning of publick taxes, the conservacy of all our royal rivers, in particular that of the Thames, the surveys of the Thames, &c. Herewith is also published at large the proceedings relating to the mill'd-lead-sheathing, and the excellency and cheapness of mill'd-lead in preference to cast sheet-lead for all other purposes whatsoever. Also a treatise of naval philosophy, written by Sir Will. Petty. The whole is submitted to the consideration of our English patriots in Parliament assembled. London: printed for James Astwood, and are to be sold by Ralph Simpson at the Harp in St. Pauls Church-yard, MDCXCI. [1691]. ESTC No. R28685. Grub Street ID 111731.