Publications of Obad. Blagrave

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 Obad. Blagrave

  • Blagrave, Joseph. Blagraves astrological practice of physick discovering, the true way to cure all kinds of diseases and infirmities which are naturally incident to the body of man. Being performed by such herbs and plants which grow within our own nation, directing the way to distil and extract their vertues and making up of medicines. Also, a discovery of some notable phylosophical secret worthy our knowledge, relating to a discovery of all kinds of evils, whether natural, or such which come from sorcery or witchcraft. or by being possessed of an evil spirit: directing how to cast forth the said evil spirit out of any one which is possessed with sundry examples thereof. By Joseph Blagrave of Reading Gent. student in astrology and physick. London: printed by S.G. and B.G. for Obad. Blagrave at the Printing-Press in Little Brittain, 167 [i.e. 1671]. ESTC No. R13219. Grub Street ID 61338.