Publications of R.I. for

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 R.I. for

  • Sedgwick, Obadiah. The doubting beleever: or, A treatise containing 1. The nature 2. The kinds 3. The springs 4. The remedies of doubtings, incident to weak beleevers. by Obadiah Sedgvvick, batchelor in divinity, and minister of Covent-Garden. London: printed by R.I. for S. Bowtell, and are to be sold at his Shop in Popes-head Alley, at the Signe of the Bible, 1653. ESTC No. R12783. Grub Street ID 60931.

Printed for R.I. for

  • Nevves from Kent a true and most exact relation of the particular commotions and transactions of the Kentish designe, with those letters which passed betwixt Sir Will: Heyman (who fled for refuge into Dover Castle) and Sir Rich: Hardresse, and Mr. Hales, Generalissimo of the Kentish forces. Together with the severall letters which past betwixt Captain Brafield, Governour of Dover Castle, and the Kentish Gentry. With letters from the officers and mariners of the revolted ships to the governour of the said castle, for the surrender thereof, with his answers, manifesting his resolution to keep it, with the hazzard of his life and fortune. London: printed for R.I. for George Hutton, 1648. ESTC No. R204966. Grub Street ID 81813.