Publications of M.S. 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 M.S. and

  • Lawrence, Henry. An history of angells. Being a theologicall treatise of our communion and warre with them. Handled on the 6th chapter of the Ephesians, the 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. verses. By Henry Lawrence, a member of this present Parliament. London: printed by M.S. and are to be sold by William Nealand in Duck Lane, 1649. ESTC No. R12895. Grub Street ID 61042.

Printed for M.S. and

  • I.F.. A new proclamation: or a warning peece against all blasphemers, ranters, Quakers, and shakers; both men and women: who goe up and down teaching, that imbracing ungodlinesse, and worldly lusts, they should live unsoberly, unrighteously, ungodly. London: printed for M.S. and are to be sold at the Blue Bible in Green Arbour, 1653. ESTC No. R207154. Grub Street ID 83574.