Publications of John Hays

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 John Hays

  • Dove, Jonathan. Dove speculum anni or An almanack for the year of our Lord God 1677. Being the first after bissextile or leap-year, and from the worlds creation, 5681. Wherein is contained a chronology, the planets, aspects, eclipses, terms, inclination of the air, with other things of note. Calculated properly for the famous university and town of Cambridge, where the North Pole is elevated above the horizon 52 degr. and 17 min. Cambridge: printed by John Hays, printer to the university, 1677. ESTC No. R16490. Grub Street ID 64327.