Publications of B. A.

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 B. A.

  • Holles, Denzil Holles. A speech of the Honorable Denzell Hollis (second son to the Right Honorable John Earle of Clare deceased) and brother to the now Earle of Clare. At the delivery of the protestation to the Lords of the upper Honse [sic] of Parliament, 4. May 1641. Wherein is set forth the reasons that moved the House of Commons to make the said protestation. o [ie. To] gether with a short narration of the severall grievances of the Kingdome. London: printed by B.A. and T.F. for Iohn Hammond, 1641. ESTC No. R13303. Grub Street ID 61415.

Printed for B. A.

  • The petition of divers eminent citizens of London, presented to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen the 28th of April, 1681. London: printed for B.A. and published by Richard Janaway [i.e. Janeway], in Queens-Head Alley in Pater-Noster-Row, 1681. ESTC No. R2345. Grub Street ID 105841.