Publications of d R.

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 d R.

  • Wadsworth, James. The English Spanish pilgrime. Or, A neuu discouery of Spanish popery, and Iesuiticall stratagems. VVith the estate of the English pentioners and fugitiues vnder the King of Spaines dominions, and else where at this present. Also laying open the new order of the Iesuitrices and preaching nunnes. Composed by Iames Wadsworth Gentleman, newly conuerted into his true mothers bosome, the Church of England, with the motiues why he left the Sea of Rome; a late pentioner to his Maiesty of Spaine, and nominated his captaine in Flanders: sonne to Mr. Iames Wadsworth, Bachelor of Diuinity, sometime of Emanuell Colledge in the Vniuersity of Cambridge, who was peruerted in the yeere 1604. and late tutor to Donia Maria Infanta of Spaine. Printed at London: By T. Cotes, and R. C[otes] for Mich. Sparke, dwelling at the blue Bible in Greene-Arbor, 1630. ESTC No. S119353. Grub Street ID 138994.

Printed for d R.

  • Watts, Isaac. The religious improvement of publick events: a sermon preach'd at Berry-Street, June 18. 1727. on occasion of the death of our late gracious sovereign George I. and the peaceful succession of His present Majesty George II. By I. Watts. London: printed by J. Clark and R. Hett, at the Bible and Crown in the Poultry; E. Matthews at the Bible in Pater-Noster-Row; and R. Ford at the Angel in the Poultry, MDCCXXVII. [1727]. ESTC No. N12566. Grub Street ID 2564.