Publications of G.P., MDCLXXXVII.

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 G.P., MDCLXXXVII.

  • An account of the execution, and last dying speeches of Thomas Watson and Thomas Gourdon, who were executed, (the one for murthering his wife, and the other for high-treason) on Kenington-Common in the county of Surry, the 19th. of March, 1687. Together, with a true copp of a paper, left by Tho. Watson, in order to be published, and and [sic] recommended by him at the place of execution, to the spectators, as the real sense of what he further designed or intended to sayor [sic] leave, at his going out of this world, &c. Being written with his own hand in the Marshalsea prison. London: printed by D[avid]. Mallet, for G.P., MDCLXXXVII. ESTC No. R170035. Grub Street ID 64830.