Publications of Robert Howes

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 Robert Howes

  • White, Ambrose. An almanack and prognostication for the year of our Lord God, 1665. Being the first after the bissextile or leap-year, and from the creation of the world, 5614. Wherein is ordained the state of the whole year, the eclipses, lunations, conjunctions and aspects of the planets, the length, and increase and decrease of the days and nights, with the rising and setting of the sun for every day of the year. Calculated according to art, and referred to the horizon of the ancient and renowned city of Dublin, where the vertex is distant from the equater 53. degrees 20. min. and longitude is 16. degrees 40. min. By Ambrose White. Dublin: printed by N[athaniel]. T[hompson]. for Robert Howes bookseller in Castle-street, anno Domini, 1665. ESTC No. R170273. Grub Street ID 65002.