Publications of the Theater

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 the Theater

  • The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Church of England; together with the psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches. Oxford: at the Theater; and are to be sold by Peter Parker at the Leg and Star, over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhil, London, MDCLXXX VI. [1686]. ESTC No. R172845. Grub Street ID 66595.

Printed for the Theater

  • Allestree, Richard. The lively oracles given to us. Or the Christians birth-right and duty, in the custody and use of the Holy Scripture. By the author of The whole duty of man, &c. [Oxford]: At the Theater in Oxford, 1713. ESTC No. N10374. Grub Street ID 383.