Publications of M. Simmons

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 M. Simmons

  • Tillinghast, John. Generation work. Or A briefe and seasonable word, offered to the view and consideration of the saints and people of god in this generation, relating to the work of the present age, or generation wee live in. Wherein is shewed, 1. What generation work is, and how it differs from other workes. 2. That saints in the severall generations they have lived in, have had the proper and peculiar workes of their generations. 3. That it is a thing of very great concernment for a saint to attend to, and be industrious in the worke of his generation. 4. Wherein doth the work of the present generation lye. 5. How each one in particular may finde out that parte or parcell of it, that is properly his worke in his generation. 6. How generation worke may be so carried on, as that God may be served in the generation. By John Tillinghast, an unworthy minister of the gospel at Trunch in Norfolke. London: printed by M. Simmons for Livewell Chapman at the Crowne in Popes-head-Alley, 1653. ESTC No. R1043. Grub Street ID 58802.