Publications of H.B. and

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 H.B. and

  • Grimston, Harbottle. The speech made to Sir John Greenvile, by Sir Harbot. Grimstone Knight, Speaker to the Honourable House of Commons, May 3. 1660. London: printed by H.B. and are sold at the George in Holbourn, [1660]. ESTC No. R12047. Grub Street ID 60264.

Printed for H.B. and

  • Charpentier. A treatise touching the East-Indian trade: or, A discourse (turned out of French into English) concerning the establishment of a French company for the commerce of the East-Indies. To which are annexed, the articles and conditions whereupon the said company for the commerce of the East-Indies is established. London: printed for H.B. and are to be sold by Robert Boulter at the Turks-Head in Cornhill, 1676. ESTC No. R11761. Grub Street ID 60016.