Publications of John. Legate.

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 John. Legate.

  • Mede, Joseph. The key of the Revelation searched and demonstrated out of the naturall and proper characters of the visions. With a comment thereupon, according to the rule of the same key, published in Latine by the profoundly learned Mr. Joseph Mede B.D. late Fellow of Christs-Colledge in Cambridge; for their use to whom God hath given a love and desire, of knowing and searching into that admirable prophesie. Translated into English by Richard More of Linley in the County of Salop, Esquire, one of the Burgesses in this present convention of Parliament. The secon edition in English, whereunto is added A conjecture concerning Gog and Magog by the same author. Printed at London: by J[ohn]. L[egate]. for Phil. Stephens at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the gilded Lion, anno Dom. 1650. ESTC No. R1085. Grub Street ID 59190.

Printed for John. Legate.

  • Wirsung, Christof. The general practise of physick. Containing all inward and outward parts of the body, with all the accidents and infirmities that are incident unto them, even from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot. Also by what means (with the help of God) they may be remedied: very meet and profitable, not onely for all physitians, chirurgions, apothecaries, and midwives, but for all other estates whatsoever; the like whereof as yet in English hath not been published. Compiled and written by the most famous and learned doctor Christopher Wirtzung, in the Germane tongue, and now translated into English in divers places corrected, and with many additions illustrated and augmented. By Jacob Mosan Germane, doctor in the same faculty. London: printed for J[ohn]. L[egate]. Henry Hood, Abel Roper, and Richard Tomlins, and are to be sold at their shops in Fleetstreet, and at the Sun and Bible in Pie-Corner, 1654. ESTC No. R216228. Grub Street ID 91154.