Publications of R.D. for

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 R.D. for

  • Ford, Simon. 'Esychia Christianou, or A Christian's acquiescence in all the products of divine providence: opened in a sermon, preached at Cottesbrook in Northampton-shire April the 16. 1644. at the interment of the Right Honourable, and eminently pious lady, the Lady Elizabeth Langham wife to Sir James Langham Kt. By Simon Ford B.D. and minister of Gods word in Northampton. London: printed by R.D. for John Baker at the Peacock in St. Pauls Church-Yard, 1665. ESTC No. R10829. Grub Street ID 59169.

Printed for R.D. for

  • Andrewes, Lancelot. A pattern of catechisticall doctrine: wherein many profitable questions touching Christian religion are handled; and the whole Decalogue succinctly and judiciously expounded. Revised and amended. London: printed for R.D. for W.G. and are to be sold by Ben. Allen in Popes-head Alley, 1641. ESTC No. R230110. Grub Street ID 102489.