Publications of Tho. Simmons

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 Tho. Simmons

  • Crook, John. Unrighteousness no plea for truth, nor ignorance a lover of it. Being an answer to a book called A plea for truth, in love to truth, subscribed by James Pope, wherein is contained his answer to several queries (sent to him by Thomas White) which are tried and found unsatisfactory, and James Popes Ten queries to the people (called) Quakers fully answered. Also the doctrine and practise of the people (called Baptists) examined and weighed (in the true ballance) and found too light, with a full discussion of their principles, and particularly their ordinances o breaking bread and water-baptism, &c. With some queries to all the people called Baptists (wheresoever they are to be found) for them to answer in truth and righteousnesse, and in Gods fear. By a true lover of all their souls and eternal welfare. John Crook. [London]: Printed for Tho. Simmons at the Bull & Mouth near Aldersgate, 1659. ESTC No. R171617. Grub Street ID 65786.