Publications of John. Back

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 John. Back

  • Cocker, Edward. Cockers accomplish'd school-master: containing sure and easie directions for spelling, reading, and writing English; according to the most plain and accurate method now extant. With divers tables of English words, comprehending most of the common words, and proper names in the Holy Bible, and other authors, both divided and whole, from one to six, seven and eight syllables. Also, pertinent directions for exact writing, and several copies of the hands now in use. Likewise, divers words which differ in their sense and spelling, but have the like sound and pronunciation. And the difference between pronouncing and writing several words. The whole being adorned with a number of delightful pictures, and many useful instructions, and other particulars, whereby any person may speedily attain to a just perfection in the English tongue. The like never yet published by any. London: printed for J[ohn]. Back at the Black Boy on London-Bridge, 1696. ESTC No. R171407. Grub Street ID 65663.