Publications of the Ship

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 the Ship

  • Boyle, Robert. General heads for the natural history of a country, great or small; drawn out for the use of travellers and navigators. Imparted by the late Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society. Ordered to be published in his life-time, at the request of some curious persons. To which is added, other directions for navigators, etc. with particular observations of the most noted countries in the world: by another hand. London: printed for John Taylor at the Ship in S. Paul's Church-yard, and S. Holford, at the Crown in the Pall Mall, 1692. ESTC No. R16299. Grub Street ID 64166.