Publications of Richard Blome

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 Richard Blome

  • Varenius, Bernhardus. Cosmography and geography in two parts, the first, containing the general and absolute part of cosmography and geography, being a translation from that eminent and much esteemed geographer, Varenius : wherein are at large handled all such arts as are necessary to be understood, for the true knowledge thereof : to which is added the much wanted schemes, omitted by the author : the second part being a geographical description of the world, taken from the notes and works of the famous Monsieur Sanson, late geographer to the French King : to which are added about an hundred cosmographical, geographical and hydrographical tables of several kingdoms and isles in the world, with their chief cities, seaports, bays, etc. drawn from the maps of the said Sanson. The third impression, illustrated with maps : to which is added the county-maps of England, drawn from those of Speed.. London: Printed by Samuel Roycroft, for Richard Blome .., 1693. ESTC No. R2029. Grub Street ID 80077.