Publications of Thomas Powell

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 Powell

  • Terence. Floures for Latine speakyng selected and gathered oute of Terence, and the same translated into englyshe, together with the exposicion and settyng foorth as well of suche latine wordes, as were thought nedefull to be an[n]oted, as also of diuerse grammaticall rules, verie profitable and necessary for the expedite knowladge in the latine tounge: compiled by Nicolas Vdall. [Imprinted at London: In Fletestrete [by Thomas Powell], in the house late Thomas Berthelettes], Anno. M.D.LX. [1560]. ESTC No. S118352. Grub Street ID 138005.
  • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. The sixt tragedie of the most graue and prudent author Lucius Anneus, Seneca, entituled Troas, with diuers [and] sundrie addicions to the same newly set foorth in Englishe by Iasper Heywood, studient in Oxenforde. Imprinted at London: by Thomas Powell, for George Bucke, [1562?]. ESTC No. S110942. Grub Street ID 130892.
  • Withals, John. A shorte dictionarie, for yonge beginners. Gathered of good authours specially of Columel, Crapald, and Plini. [Imprinted at London: In Fletestrete [[by Thomas Powell] in the late house of Thomas Barthelet], Anno. M. D. LXII [1562]]. ESTC No. S111716. Grub Street ID 131500.
  • Vives, Juan Luis. Introduction to wisedome. Banket of sapience. Preceptes of Agapetus. [Imprinted at London: in Fletestreete by Tho. Powell, anno. 1563]. ESTC No. S111591. Grub Street ID 131397.