Publications of Bennet. Griffin

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 Bennet. Griffin

  • Fly, an almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1688. It being the bisextile of leap-year and from the creation of the world, (as commonly computed) 5689. Calculated for the meridian of Kings-Lynn; where the pole artick is elevated, 52 deg. 43 min. above the horizon, and may very well serve for any other part of England. London: printed by B[ennet]. Griffin, for the Company of Stationers, 1688. ESTC No. R170187. Grub Street ID 64932.

Printed for Bennet. Griffin

  • Bacon, Francis. A breif discourse of the happy union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, with certain articles concerning the same. Dedicated to his Majesty. By the Right Honourable Sir Francis Bacon, Kt. Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England. London: printed for B[ennet]. Griffin and are to be sold by H[ugh]. Newman, at the Grashopper in the Poultry, 1700. ESTC No. R29603. Grub Street ID 112563.