Publications of R.I. 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 R.I. and

  • Audley, John, Preacher of the Gospel. Englands common-wealth, shewing the liberties of the people. The priviledges of Parliament, and the rights of the souldiery. With epistles to the persons mentioned, concluding the severall parts hereof. Written by John Audley a preacher of the Gospel, and a well wisher to them that imbrace it. London: printed by R.I. and are to be sold by Livewell Chapman at the Crown in Popes-head Alley, 1652. ESTC No. R1402. Grub Street ID 62067.

Printed for R.I. and

  • Eyre, William. Vindiciæ justificationis gratuitæ. = Justification without conditions; or, the free justification of a sinner, explained, confirmed, and vindicated, from the exceptions, objections, and seeming absurdities, which are cast upon it, by the assertors of conditional justification: more especially from the attempts of Mr. B. Woodbridge in his sermon, entituled Justification by faith of Mr. Cranford in his epistle to the reader, and of Mr. Baxter in some passages, which relate to the same matter. Wherein also, the absoluteness of the new covenant is proved, and the arguments against it, are disproved. By W. Eyre, minister of the Gospel, and pastor of a church in the city of New Sarum. London: printed for R.I. and are to be sold by Tho. Brewster, at the Three Bibles in Pauls Church-yard, near the West-end, 1654. [i.e. 1653]. ESTC No. R207122. Grub Street ID 83545.