Publications of J. Sturton

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 J. Sturton

  • Courtilz de Sandras, Gatien. The memoirs of the Count De Rochefort, containing an account of what past most memorable, under the ministry of Cardinal Richelieu, and Cardinal Mazarin, with many particular passages of the reign of Lewis the present French King, Never before in Print. Made English from the French. The second edition corrected.. London: printed for John Sturton near Sergeants-Inn-gate in Chancery-lane, and A. Bosvile at the Dyal against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, 1696. ESTC No. R227538. Grub Street ID 100438.