Publications of Moses. Bell.

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 Moses. Bell.

  • Partridge, Seth. Partridge. 1649. An almanack and prognostication for the yeare of the worlds redemption, 1649. And of the creation, 5642. Being the first after bissextile or leape yeare. Calculated and principally referred to the meridian of the most honourable city of London, whose scituation is in longitude 24 degrees, and 20 minutes, and in latitude 51 degrees 32 minutes, and may serve indifferently for the whole kingdome of England. Composed and made fit for the use of all sorts of men in generall. By Seth Partridge, surveyor, and practitioner in the mathematicks. London: printed by M[oses]. B[ell]. for the Companie of Stationers, [1649]. ESTC No. R16871. Grub Street ID 64679.