Publications of Thomas Axe

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 Thomas Axe

  • Mr. Ashtons ghost to his late companion in the Tovver. London: printed for T. Axe, 1691. ESTC No. R16704. Grub Street ID 64522.
  • Moxon, Joseph. An epitome of the whole art of war. In two parts. The first of military discipline, containing the whole exercise of the pike and musquet, &c. with plain directions for the various postures. Also the drawing up of battalions, and way of forming them; with the art of doubling, wheeling, forming and drawing up an army into any figure. The way of conducting armies in hilly, woody or plain countries: of encampings, besiegings, giving of battle, &c. The second of fortification and gunnery, which shews the principles and practice of fortification, as now used, as well by the English, as several other European nations, (especially by their Majesties army) at the late sieges of Athlone, Galoway, Lymerick, &c. The measures and dimensions of rampires, parapets, moats, &c. Of casements, cittadels, crownworks, ravelins, &c. Of gunnery, the qualifications of a gunner. Of ordnance, morters, demy cannon, &c. with the manner of batteries, &c. All illustrated and further explained by 18. copper plates, cu. London: printed for Tho. Axe, in Holiday-Yard, in Creed-Lane, near Ludgate Street, and Philip Lee, at the Atlas and Hercules in Cheapside, and at his shop in Westminster Hall, next the Common Pleas, and Edward Pool in Exchange Ally, 1692. ESTC No. R180780. Grub Street ID 71681.
  • Boyers travells in Europe, Viz. Flanders, The Rhine, Savoy, Catalonia, Hungaty, Greece. With maps of those countries, and the parts adjacent. London: Printed, for Thomas Axe, at the Blew-Ball in Duke-Lane, 1701. ESTC No. T208276. Grub Street ID 237193.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by Thomas Axe

  • Gildon, Charles. Letters and essays, on several subjects: philosophical, moral, historical, critical, amorous, &c. in prose and verse. To John Dryden, Esq; Geo. Granvill, Esq; Walter Moile, Esq; Mr. Congreve, and Mr. Denis; and other ingenious men of th' age. By several gentlemen and ladies. London: printed, and are to be sold by Daniel Browne at the Black Swan and Bible without Templ-Bar, and Tho. Axe, at the Blew Ball in Duck-Lane, 1697. ESTC No. R28034. Grub Street ID 111145.