Publications of Nathaniel Rolls

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 Nathaniel Rolls

  • Sleidanus, Johannes. De quatuor summis imperiis. An historical account of the four chief monarchies or empires of the world. Viz. I. The Assyrian, or Babylonian. II. The Persian. III. The Grecian. IV. The Roman, continued down to the beginning of the reign of the Emperor Charles the Fifth. Being a relation of the most considerable occurrences that have happened in the world from Noah's flood to the year of our Lord J.C. 1520. Written in Latin by John Sleidan, sometime Ambassador in England from the Protestant states of Germany, deputy for the city of Strasburg in the council of Tren and author of The history of the reformation of religion in Germany. Now newly Englished. London: printed for Nathaniel Rolls at his auction-house in Petty Canons Hall near the north-side of St. Paul's Church, 1695. ESTC No. R10263. Grub Street ID 58652.