Publications of Rich. Cotes

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 Rich. Cotes

  • Robinson, Henry. Libertas, or Reliefe to the English captives in Algier. Briefly discoursing hovv such as are in slavery may be soonest set at liberty, others preserved therein, and the great Turke reduc'd to renue and keepe the peace inviolate, to a greater enlargement of trade and priviledges than ever the English nation hitherto enjoy'd in Turkie. Presented to the serious consideration of the honourable Court of Parliament. By Henry Robinson, gent. London: printed by Rich. Cotes for John Sweeting, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Angel, in Popes-head Alley, 1642. ESTC No. R10827. Grub Street ID 59167.

Printed for Rich. Cotes

  • An ordinance declaratory of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the regulating of the excise, upon flesh, viz. beeves, muttons, veals, porks, lambs, and other butchers meat kill'd for provision of victuals. Die Sabbathi, 3 Augusti, 1644. Ordered by the Lords assembled in Parliament, that this ordinance shall be forthwith printed and published. Joh. Browne, Cler. Parliamentorum. London: printed for Rich. Cotes and Joh. Raworth, [1644]. ESTC No. R176270. Grub Street ID 68876.