Publications of R.R. and

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 R.R. and

  • Jewel, John. An apology for the Church of England. Written originally in Latine by the most reverend and learned prelate John Jewel, sometime Lord Bishop of Salisbury: and newly made English from the most correct edition. London: printed by R.R. and are to be sold by Randall Taylor, near Stationers Hall, 1685. ESTC No. R16896. Grub Street ID 64701.

Printed for R.R. and

  • Taylor, Jeremy. The rvle and exercises of holy dying in which are described the means and instruments of preparing our selves, and others respectively, for a blessed death ... together with prayers and acts of vertue to be used by sick and dying persons ... to which are added rules for the visitation of the sick ... London: Printed for R.R. and are to be sold by William Ballard in .. Bristoll, 1651. ESTC No. R38796. Grub Street ID 120849.