Publications of M.S. &

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 M.S. &

  • Richardson, Samuel. Justification by Christ alone, a fountaine of life and comfort, declaring that the whole worke of mans salvation was accomplished by Jesus Christ upon the crosse, in that he tooke away & healed all his, from all sinnes, and presented them to God holy without fault in his sight. And the objections against this are answered, for the consolation of such as beleive; & that they may not ascribe that which is proper to Christs preistly office, to their beleiving. By Samuel Richardson. London: Printed by M.S. & are to be sould by Hannah Allen at the signe of the Crowne in Popes-head-Alley. And George Whittington at the Anchor neere the Royall-Exchange, 1647. ESTC No. R201586. Grub Street ID 78973.

Printed for M.S. &

  • W. B, late student there. Experiences & tears: the experiences bee of 1 good, 2 evill. The tears are of 1 joy, 2 grief. Brought out from among the tombes where they lay buried. Published in this paper-vision for the good of them that must (of necessity) travaile unto those parts. And commended 1 To the commonwealth of England 2 To the reader. In a most plaine and easie allegory. By W.B., a late student there. London: Printed for M.S. & R.I. and are to bee sold at the Exchange, and at the shops in Westminster-Hall, 1652. ESTC No. R17293. Grub Street ID 66661.