Publications of William Birch

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 William Birch

  • Every, John. Speculum mercativum, or The young merchant's glass. Wherein are exact rules of all weights, coins, measures, exchanges, and other matters necessary used in commerce. As also variety of merchants accompts after the Italian-vvay of debitor and creditor, in factorage, partnership and barter. Likewise the method of keeping pursers books. By John Every from his chamber at Barnstaple in Devon. London: printed for William Birch at the Bible, at the lower-end of Cheap-side, between the Poultrey and Bucklers-bury. 1674. Sold by Benjamin Billingsley at the Printing-Press in Cornhill, 1674. ESTC No. R176800. Grub Street ID 69174.

Author

  • Birch, William. A new balade of the worthy seruice of late doen by Maister Strangwige in Fraunce, and of his death. Imprinted at London: By Alexander Lacy for William Owen, and are to be sold at the little shop at the north dore of Poules, [1562]. ESTC No. S121715. Grub Street ID 141287.
  • Birch, William. The complaint of a sinner, vexed with paine, desyring the ioye, that euer shall remayne. After W.E. moralized. Imprinted at London: By Alexander Lacy, for Richard Applow, dwellyng in Pater noster row, hard by the Castle Tauerne, [1563]. ESTC No. S121713. Grub Street ID 141285.
  • Birch, William. A songe betwene the quenes maiestie and Englande. Imprinted at London: by William Pickeringe, dwelling vnder Saynt Magnus church, [1564]. ESTC No. S91106. Grub Street ID 150306.
  • Birch, William. A warnyng to Englan[d], let London begin: to repent their iniquitie, [and] flie from their sin. Imprinted at London: In little Britaine: by Alexander Lacie, [1565]. ESTC No. S121714. Grub Street ID 141286.