Publications of Livewell Chapman

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 Livewell Chapman

  • Lenthall, John. A list of all the prisoners in the Upper Bench prison, remaining in custody the third of May, 1653. Delivered in by Sir John Lenthall to the committee appointed by the Councell of State, for examining of the state of the said prison, with the times of their first commitment, and the causes of their detention. And also the substance of the propositions made by the committee to the prisoners, with their answer thereunto. Published for information of all such as are concerned herein. By the appointment of the committee, Coll: Thomas Pride. Coll: Tomlinson. Coll: Cooper. Mr. John Fountaine. Mr. Richard Wollaston. Mr. Margets Judg Advocate. London: priuted [sic] for Livewell Chapman, and are to be sold at his shop at the Crown in Popes-head Alley, 1653. ESTC No. R15854. Grub Street ID 63756.
  • 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.
  • Pell, Daniel. Pelagos, nec inter vivos, nec inter mortuos, neither amongst the living, nor amongst the dead, or, An improvement of the sea upon the nine nautical verses in the 107 Psalm wherein is handled I. the several, great and many hazzards that mariners do meet ..., II. their many, several, miraculous and stupendious deliverances ..., III. a very full and delightful description of all those many various and multitudinous objects which they behold in their travels ... / by Daniel Pell ... London: Printed for L[ivewell] C[hapman] and are to be sold by H. Mortlocke .. and J. Sims .., 1659. ESTC No. R1707. Grub Street ID 65281.
  • The city of Londons new letany. To the tune of the Black-smith. [London]: Printed for L[ivewell]. C[hapman]., in the year 1659. ESTC No. R37764. Grub Street ID 119962.
  • Powell, Vavasor. Tsofer bepa.h or The bird in the cage, chirping four distinct notes to his consorts abroad. I. Of consideration, counsel, and consolation. II. Some experiences and observations gathered in affliction, and first intended only for private use. III. The Lamentations of Jeremiah, in the ordinary measure of singing psalms. IV. A true Christians spiritual pilgrimage, setting forth his afflicted and consolatory state, in another metre. And as a perface hereto, an epistle to the Welsh churches, and a brief narrative of the former propagation, and late restriction of the Gospel, (and the true preachers and professors thereof) in Wales. And a short vindication of the author and others, from the calumniation of their adversaries concerning the same. By Vava. Powell. The second edition corrected and enlarged.. London: printed, for L[ivewell]. C[hapman]. at the next shop to Popes-head Alley, on the west-side in Cornhill, 1662. ESTC No. R12845. Grub Street ID 60996.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by Livewell Chapman

  • Lewgar, John. Erastus Junior. Or, A fatal blovv to the clergies pretensions to divine right. In a solid demonstration, by principles, forms of ordination, canon-laws, acts and ordinances of Parliament, and other publique acts, instruments, records, and proceedings, owned by themselves, that no bishop, nor minister, (prelatical, or Presbyterian) nor presbytery (classical, or national) hath any right or authority to preach, ... in this nation, from Christ, but onely from the Parliament. In two parts: the one demonstrating it to an episcopal, the other to a Presbyterian minister. By Josiah Web, Gent. a serious detester of the dregs of the Antichristian hierarchy yet remaining among us. London: printed, and are to be sold by Livewell Chapman at the signe of the Crown in Popeshead Alley, 1660. ESTC No. R202720. Grub Street ID 79941.