Publications of Tho. Johnson

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 Tho. Johnson

  • Neville, Robert. The poor scholar. A comedy. VVritten by Robert Nevile, Fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge. London: printed by Tho. Johnson, for Francis Kirkman, and Henry Marsh, and are to be sold at their shop, at the Princes Arms in Chancery-lane, 1662. ESTC No. R14670. Grub Street ID 62675.

Printed for Tho. Johnson

  • Raleigh, Walter. Aphorisms of state, grounded on authority and experience, and illustrated with the choycest examples and historical observations. By Sr. Walter Raleigh, Kt. London: printed for Tho. Johnson, at the Golden Key in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1661. ESTC No. R20787. Grub Street ID 84184.