Publications of Henry Brome

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.

Printers (owners of the type and printing presses, and possibly owners of the copyright) may be identified by the words printed by, but printed by does not universally designate a person who is a printer by trade. Booksellers may be identified by the words sold by. Booksellers may also be identified by the words printed for, but nothing should be concluded in this regard without further evidence, especially since "printed for" could signify that the named person was a distributor (or what we might call a wholesaler) rather than a copyright holder. Copyright owners may also be identified by the words printed for. Trade publishers, who distributed books and pamphlets but did not own the copyright or employ a printer—and were not printers themselves—might be identified by the words printed and sold by. Furthermore, works from this period often display false imprints, whether to evade copyright restrictions, to conceal the name of the copyright holders, or to dupe unwitting customers. Ultimately, one must proceed with caution in using the following lists: designations in the imprints may not reliably reflect the actual trades or roles of the people named, and the formulas used in imprints do not consistently mean the same thing.

David Foxon discussed the "meaning of the imprint" in his Lyell Lecture delivered at Oxford in March 1976, with particular attention to "publishers" in the eighteenth-century context:

The fullest form of an imprint is one which names three people, or groups of people:
     London: printed by X (the printer), for Y (the bookseller who owned the copyright), and sold by Z.
In the eighteenth century the printer's name is rarely given, at least in works printed in London, and the form is more commonly:
     London: printed for Y, and sold by Z.
Very often in this period, and particularly for pamphlets, it is further abbreviated to:
     London: printed and sold by Z.
It is this last form which is my present concern. Z is usually what the eighteenth century called 'a publisher', or one who distributes books and pamphlets without having any other responsibility—he does not own the copyright or employ a printer, or even know the author.

He cautions, "The only way to avoid being misled is to regard any imprint which says a book is printed for a publisher as meaning it is sold by him" (5).

D. F. McKenzie coined the term "trade publisher" for these publishers in his Sandars Lectures, also in 1976, on the grounds that their principal role was to publish on behalf of other members of the book trade (Treadwell 100).

Michael Treadwell cautions that "In this period the imprint 'London: Printed and sold by A.B.' normally means 'Printed at London, and sold by A.B.' and must not be taken to mean that A.B. is a printer in the absence of other evidence." Further, "The imprint 'published by' occurs only rarely in Wing and is almost always associated with the name of a trade publisher" (104). While there are exceptions to the rule, it is "certain," he explains, "that anyone who made a speciality of distributing works for others will show a far higher proportion than normal of imprints in one of the 'sold by' forms" (116), which appear in the imprint as "sold by," "printed and sold by," or "published by" (104). Treadwell gives Walter Kettilby as an example of "a fairly typical copyright-owning bookseller" (106)—his role is almost always designated by the phrase "printed for" on imprints.

A final caution: publisher is a word that should be used with some deliberation. Samuel Johnson defines it simply as "One who puts out a book into the world," but "published by" rarely appears on the imprint until later in the eighteenth century, and then primarily associated with newspapers and pamphlets. Treadwell observes that John Dunton names only five publishers among the 200 binders and booksellers in his autobiographical Life and Errors (1705) wherein he undertakes "to draw the Character of the most Eminent [Stationers] in the Three Kingdoms" (100). Treadwell also remarks, however, that "in law, anyone who offered a work for sale 'published' it. In this sense every work had one or more 'publishers', and every bookseller, mercury, and hawker was a 'publisher'" (114).

See:

  • Terry Belanger, "From Bookseller to Publisher: Changes in the London Book Trade, 1750–1850," in Book Selling and Book Buying. Aspects of the Nineteenth-Century British and North American Book Trade, ed. Richard G. Landon (Chicago: American Library Association, 1978).
  • Bricker, Andrew Benjamin. "Who was 'A. Moore'? The Attribution of Eighteenth-Century Publications with False and Misleading Imprints," in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 110.2 (2016).
  • John Dunton, The Life and Errors of John Dunton (London: Printed for S. Malthus, 1705).
  • John Feather, "The Commerce of Letters: The Study of the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade," Eighteenth-Century Studies 17 (1984).
  • David Foxon, Pope and the Early Eighteenth-Century Book Trade, ed. James McLaverty (Oxford University Press, 1991).
  • Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language, (printed for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755).
  • D.F. McKenzie, The London Book Trade in the Later Seventeenth Century (Sandars lectures in bibliography, 1977).
  • Michael Treadwell, "London Trade Publishers 1675–1750," The Library sixth series, vol. 4, no. 2 (1982).

Printed by Henry Brome

  • Janson, Henry. Jonas redux, or A divine warning-piece shot from the fort-royal of Ninive, to all cities, countreys, kingdoms, and empires, to exhort them to be careful how they do admit of the dominion of sin, within their respective territories, lest they fall into the like danger. By Jonas Anglicus. London: printed by Henry Brome, at the Gun at the West End of St. Pauls, MDCLXXII. [1672]. ESTC No. R30367. Grub Street ID 113237.

Printed for Henry Brome

  • Jordan, Thomas. A speech made to his Excellency the Lord General Monck, and the Council of State, at Goldsmiths Hall in London, the tenth day of April, 1660. At which time they were entertained by that honourable company. After a song in four parts, at the conclusion of a chorus, enter sea-captain. London: printed for H[enry]. B[rome]. at the Gun in Ivy-lane, 1660. ESTC No. R211804. Grub Street ID 87558.
  • No blinde guides, in answer to a seditious pamphlet of J. Milton's, intituled Brief notes upon a late sermon titl'd, the fear of God and the King; preachd, and since published, by Matthew Griffith, D.D. and chaplain to the late King, &c. Addressed to the author. London: printed for Henry Broome, April 20. 1660. ESTC No. R13799. Grub Street ID 61875.
  • A whipp a whipp, for the schismaticall animadverter upon the Bishop of Worcester's letter. By Roger L'Estrange. London: printed for Henry Brome, at the Gun in Ivy-lane, February the 7th. 1662. ESTC No. R10187. Grub Street ID 58579.
  • Walrond, Henry. Arithmetical tables fitted to the capacity of such as are unskilled in the art of numbers. Many of which tables are so composed, that a multitude of questions may be answered by inspection only. By the help of addition and substraction, there is no question that can be propounded (serving for common use) but may be resolved speedily and exactly. By Henry Walrond, esq;. London: printed by E. Cotes for H[enry] Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane, 1663. ESTC No. R220834. Grub Street ID 95086.
  • Glover, Henry. Ekdik=esis or A discourse of vengeance. Delivered in a sermon preached at Dorchester, at the assizes holden there for the county of Dorset, March. 4. 1663. By Henry Glover rector of Shroton. London: printed for Henry Brome. And are to be sold by William Churchill. Book-seller in Dorchester, 1664. ESTC No. R217417. Grub Street ID 92203.
  • Digby, Kenelm. The closet of the eminently learned Sir Kenelme Digby Kt. opened: whereby is discovered several ways for making of metheglin, sider, cherry-wine, &c. Together with excellent directions for cookery: as also for preserving, conserving, candying, &c. Published by his son's consent. London: printed by E[llen]. C[otes]. & A[ndrew]. C[larke]. for H[enry] Brome, [at the Gun] at the West-End of St. Pauls, 1671. ESTC No. R16124. Grub Street ID 64006.
  • H., J.. Essays of love and marriage: being letters written by two gentlemen; one dissuading from love, the other an answer thereunto. With some characters and other passages of wit. London: printed for H. Brome at the Gun in S. Paul's Church-yard, 1673. ESTC No. R11545. Grub Street ID 59819.
  • Guidott, Thomas. A letter concerning some observations lately made at BatheDT Written to his much honoured friend Sir E.G. Knight and Baronet, M.D. in London. By Thomas Guidott, M.B. London: printed by A. C[larke]. for Henry. Brome at the sign of the Gun at the West end of Saint Pauls, 1674. ESTC No. R9425. Grub Street ID 129507.
  • Guidott, Thomas. A discourse of Bathe, and the hot waters there. Also, some enquiries into the nature of the water of St. Vincent's rock, near Bristol; and that of Castle-Cary. To which is added, a century of observations, more fully declaring the nature, property, and distinction of the Baths. With an account of the lives, and character, of the physicians of Bathe. By Tho. Guidott, M.B. physician there. London: printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in St. Paul's Church-yard, the west end, 1676. ESTC No. R10888. Grub Street ID 59225.
  • Geographical cards, made and sold for Henry Brome at ye Gun in St. Pauls Church-yard. London: [for Henry Brome], 1676. ESTC No. R177377. Grub Street ID 69505.
  • Church of England. Diocese of Gloucester. (1672-1681 : Pritchett).. Articles of visitation and enquiry concerning matters ecclesiastical. Exhibited to the ministers, church-wardens, and side-men of every parish within the diocess of Gloucester. In the second triennial visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God John by divine permission Lord Bishop of Gloucester. London: printed for H[enry]. Brome at the Gun at the west-end of St. Pauls-Church, 1676. ESTC No. R173878. Grub Street ID 67230.
  • Wingate, Edmund. The exact constable with his original, and power in all cases belonging to his office. As also, the office of church-wardens, overseers of the poor, surveyors of the highways, treasurers of the county stock, parish clerks, governours of fairs, and other inferiour officers, as they are at this day establisht both by the common laws and statutes of this kingdom. E.W. of Grays Inne Esq. The fourth edition.. London: printed for Hen. Brome, Tho. Sawbridge, and Tho. Passenger, 1677. ESTC No. R10831. Grub Street ID 59172.
  • Digby, Kenelm. The closet of the eminently learned Sir Kenelme Digby Kt. opened: whereby is discovered several ways for making of metheglin, syder, cherry-wine, &c. Together with excellent directions for cookery: as also for preserving, conserving, candying, &c. Published by his son's consent. The third edition corrected.. London: printed by H[enry]. C[ruttenden]. for H. Brome, at the west-end of St. Pauls, 1677. ESTC No. R10652. Grub Street ID 58999.
  • The plotters ballad: being Jack Ketch's incomparable receipt for the cure of trayterous recusants: or wholesome physick for a popish contagion. Licensed December the 2d. 1678. To the tune of No, no, 'tis in vain. London: printed for H. B[rome?]., in the year 1678. ESTC No. R181893. Grub Street ID 72292.
  • Turner, Bryan. A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and aldermen of London, at the Guild-Hall Chappel. Octob. the 28th. 1677. By Bryan Turner, B.D. Chaplain to the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Carlisle, &c. one of the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council. London: printed for Henry Brome at the Gun, near the west-end of St. Pauls, 1678. ESTC No. R1722. Grub Street ID 66156.
  • Lestrange's narrative of the plotDT Set forth for the edification of His Majesties liege-people. London: printed by J[oseph]. B[ennet]. for Hen. Brome at the Gun at the west-end of S. Pauls, 1680. ESTC No. R14939. Grub Street ID 62912.
  • The Observator. In question and answer. London: printed for H[enry]. Brome, at the Gun in S. Pauls Church-yard, [1681]. ESTC No. P1869. Grub Street ID 55626.