Publications of further service

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 further service

  • Crisp, Stephen. An epistle to Friends concerning the present and succeeding times. Being a faithful exhortation and warning to all Friends, who profess the truth, to beware of the manifold wiles of the enemy, and to stand armed in the light of the Lord God of heaven and earth, against his assaults, that so they may be ready to answer the call and requirings of the Lord. Also, something signified of the misery of the succeeding times, that all may be prepared, and that the evil day may not overtake any at unawares, but such as turn away their ear from counsel. By one who is a traveller in the way of peace, and hath good will towards all men, and more especially to the houshold of faith, Stephen Crisp. London]: Printed in the year 1666. and reprinted for further service in the year, 1669. [i.e. 1679. ESTC No. R171600. Grub Street ID 65774.