Publications of Thomas Orrell

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 Thomas Orrell

  • Leanerd, John. The rambling justice, or The jealous husbands. With the humours of Sir John Twiford. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal. By John Leanerd. Licensed March 13. 1678. Roger L'Estrange. London: printed by E[lizabeth]. F[lesher]. for Thomas Orrell and James Vade, at the Hand and Scepter, and Cock and Sugar-Loafe, near St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleetstreet, 1678. ESTC No. R10792. Grub Street ID 59133.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by Thomas Orrell

  • Du Chastelet, Paul Hay. The politicks of France. By Monsieur P.H. Marquis of C. With reflections on the 4th and 5th chapters: wherein he censures the Roman clergy, and the Hugonots; by the Sr. l'Ormegregny. London: printed, and are to be sold by Thomas Orrell at the Hand and Scepter over against St. Clements Church near Essex-street in the Strand, 1680. ESTC No. R177923. Grub Street ID 69858.