Publications of B. Griffin

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 B. Griffin

  • Baxter, Richard. Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated. Including the chief part of the government of Christian princes and popes, and a true account of the most troubling controversies and heresies till the Reformation. Written for the use especially of them: I. Who are ignorant or misinformed of the state of the antient churches. II. Who cannot read many and great volumes. III. Who think that the universal church must have one visible soveraign, personal or collective, pope of general councils. IV. Who would know whether patriarchs, diocesans, and their councils, have been, or must be the cure of heresies and schismes. V. Who would know the truth about the great heresies which have divided the christian world, especially the Donatists, Novitians, Arrians, Macedonians, Nestorians, Eutychians, monothelites, &c. By Richard Baxter, a hater of false history. London: printed by B. Griffin for Thomas Simmons at the Princes Arms in Ludgate-street, MDCLXXX [1680]. ESTC No. R10655. Grub Street ID 59002.