Publications of Thomas. Cotes.

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 Thomas. Cotes.

  • Wentworth, Thomas. The office and dutie of executors. Or A treatise of wils and executors, directed to testators in the choise of their executors and contrivance of their wills. With direction for executors in the execution of their office, according to the law, and for creditors in the recovery of their debts. E€œxpressing the duty, right, interest, power and authority of executors, and how they may behave themselves in the office of executorship. With divers other particulars very usefull, profitable, and behovefull for all persons, be they either executors, creditors or debtors. Compiled out of the body of the common-law, with mention of such statutes as are incident hereunto. London: Printed by T[homas]. C[otes]. for Andrew Crooke, Laurence Chapman, William Cooke, and Richard Best, 1641. ESTC No. R15205. Grub Street ID 63162.