Publications of P.S. and

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 P.S. and

  • Thomas. Soliloquium animæ, the sole-talke of the soule, or, A spirituall and heauenlie dialogue betwixt the soule of man and God which, for the great affinitie it hath with other bookes of the auctor published heretofore in our natiue tongue, is now entituled, [brace] The fourth booke of the Imitation of Christ [brace] translated and corrected by Thomas Rogers. At London: Printed by P.S. and are to be sold by William Leake, at his shop in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Greyhound, 1598. ESTC No. S2362. Grub Street ID 146754.

Printed for P.S. and

  • Bolton, Samuel. The trve bovnds of Christian freedome. Or a treatise wherein the rights of the law are vindicated, the liberties of grace maintained; and severall late opinions against the law are examined and confuted. By Sam. Bolton D.D. late Master of Christs Colledge in Cambridge. Whereunto is annexed a discourse of the learned John Camerons, touching the three-fold covenant of God with man, faithfully translated. London: printed, for P.S. and are to be sold by A[ndrew]. Kemb, and are to be sold at his shop neer the Talbot-gate in Southwark, 1656. ESTC No. R172816. Grub Street ID 66572.