Publications of Iohn Bill

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 Iohn Bill

  • England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.. Die Sabbathi, 18]0] Maij. 1661. Upon reading the petition of William Earl of Bedford, participants and adventurers for dreyning of the Great Levell of the Fenns, shewing that the said Levell having been drained at the petitioners charge, for the recompence of 95000 acres. London: printed by Iohn Bill, and Christopher Barker, printers to the King's most excellent Majesty, 1661. At the King's printing-house in Black-friers, [1661]. ESTC No. R172068. Grub Street ID 66071.

Printed for Iohn Bill

  • Rider, John. Riders dictionarie. As it was heretofore corrected, and with the addition of aboue fiue hundred words enriched. Hereunto is annexed a dictionary etymologicall, deriuing euery word from his natiue fountaine, with reasons of the deriuations; and many Roman antiquities, neuer an extant in that kinde before. By Francis Holyoke. To which are ioyned (as may appeare more largely in the title and epistle before the Latine dictionary) many vsefull alterations, emendations, and additions of etymologies, differences, antiquities, histories, and their morals By Nicholas Gray. London: Printed by Adam Islip for Iohn Bill [and F. Kyngston], 1626. ESTC No. S113416. Grub Street ID 133151.