Publications of Charles. Brown.

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 Charles. Brown.

  • Drake, Francis. The voyages & travels of that renowned captain, Sir Francis Drake, into the West-Indies, and round about the world: giving a perfect relation of his strange adventures, and many wonderful discoveries, his fight with the Spaniard, and many barbarous nations; his taking St Jago, St. Domingo, Carthagena, St. Augusta, and many other places in the golden country of America, and other parts of the world: his description of monsters, and monstrous people. With many other remarkable passages not before extant: contained in the history of his life and death; both pleasant and profitable to the reader. London]: Printed by C[harles]. B[rown]. for J[ohn]. F[oster]. and sold by E. Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-bridge, [1700]. ESTC No. R1106. Grub Street ID 59380.