Publications of Richard Lownds

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 Richard Lownds

  • Nedham, Marchamont. Medela medicinæ. A plea for the free profession, and a renovation of the art of physick, out of the noblest and most authentick writers. Shewing The publick advantage of its liberty. The disadvantage that comes to the publick by any sort of physicians, imposing upon the studies and practise of others. The alteration of diseases from their old state and condition. The causes of that alteration. The insufficiency and uselessness of meer scholastick methods and medicines, with a necessity of new. Tending to the rescue of mankind from the tyranny of diseases; and of physicians themselves, from the pedantism of old authors and present dictators. The author, M.N. Med. Londinens. London: printed for Richard Lownds at the White-Lion in S. Pauls Church-yard, neer the Little North-door, 1665. ESTC No. R19741. Grub Street ID 77308.