Publications of leases, text
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:
- "printed by x"; or
- "sold by x"; or
- "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,":
- "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 leases, text
- Cocker, Edward. [Cocker's] Urania, or, The scholars delight[.] Containing [F]our and twenty times four and twe[nty] sententious disticks or verse[s] in alphabetical order. [Fit]ted for writing-maste[rs] to set their learners for copies, in all the curious hands they teach. [An]d for Latin-masters, being proper the[mes] for their scholars to turn into Latin. [A] work purposely composed for the benefit o[f] publick and private schools. By Edward Cocker, [pra]ctitioner in the arts of writing, arithmet[ick], and engraving. London: [pri]nted by W[illiam]. G[odbid]. and sold by William Rumbold, at the Golden L[yon?], Southwark by the meal-market, where you may have all sorts [of] Cocker's coppy-books, bonds, bills, licenses, large indentures for leases, text and rul'd, indentures [for apprentices, and the best ink for records, 1675?]. ESTC No. R171414. Grub Street ID 65667.