Publications of Wil. Rands

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 Wil. Rands

  • Birchensha, John. The history of the scripture: containing the many wonderfull things that were done in the world from Anno 29. to Anno 381. How Christ set up his kingdome, and the state and condition of the Church. A chronologie of the miseries wherewith God did visit the nations of the earth (of the Roman monarchy) from 381. to 1641. Of the time of the comming [sic] of Christ. Of the gathering of the Jews. Of the state of the gentiles when the Jews shall be converted. Of the destruction of mysticall Babylon. By J.B. a lover of peace and truth in Christ. London: printed for Wil. Rands at Fleet-bridge, against the Bear-Taverne, 1660. ESTC No. R172971. Grub Street ID 66694.