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.

  • Clarke, Samuel. The marrow of ecclesiastical history, divided into two parts: the first, containing the life of Our Blessed Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ; with the lives of the ancient fathers, school-men, first-reformers, and modern divines. The second, containing the lives of Christian emperors, kings and sovereign princes. Whereunto are added the lives of inferiour Christians, who have lived in these latter centuries. And lastly, are subjoyned the lives of many of those, who by their vertue and valor obtained the sir-name of Great. Divers of which, give much light to sundry places of Scripture; especially to the prophecies concerning the four monarchies. Together with the lively effigies of the most eminent of them cut in copper. The third edition, corrected and somwhat enlarged. By Samuel Clark, Pastor of St. Bennet Fink, London. London: printed [by J.R.] for W[illiam]. B[irch]. and are to be sold by Tho. Sawbridge at the Three Flower-de-luces in Little-Britain, and by William Birch at the Peacock at the lower-end of Cheapside, 1675. ESTC No. R12009. Grub Street ID 60226.