Publications of J.R. 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 J.R. and

  • Thomas, William. Echemythia; Roman oracles silenced: or, the prime testimonies of antiquity produced by Henry Turbervil in his Manual of controversies examined and refuted. By the Right Reverend Dr. William Thomas, late Lord Bishop of Worcester. Imprimatur, Jan. 20. 1691. Z. Isham. R.P.D. Henrico Episc. Lond. a Sacris. London: printed by J.R. and are to be sold at the Crown in Cornhil, near the Stocks-Market, MDCXCI. [1691]. ESTC No. R1204. Grub Street ID 60256.

Printed for J.R. and

  • Mather, Cotton. Eleutheria: or, An idea of the Reformation in England: and a history of non-conformity in and since that Reformation. With predictions of a more glorious reformation and revolution at hand Written in the year 1696. Mostly compiled and maintain'd from unexceptionable writings of conformable divines in the Church of England. To which is added, The conformists reasons for joining with the nonconformists in divine worship. By another hand. London: printed for J.R. and sold by Sam. Philips bookseller at Boston in New-England, 1698. ESTC No. R1888. Grub Street ID 76608.