Publications of pensis 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 pensis S.

  • Langbaine, Gerard. Ethices compendium, a viro cl. G. Langbænio, (ut fertur) adornatum: et nunc demum recognitum & emendatum; ... Accedit Methodus argumentandi Aristotelica ad akribeian mathematicam redacta. Disposuit ... Johannes Hudsonus, S.T.P. Oxonii: impensis S. Parker, 1745. ESTC No. T194409. Grub Street ID 228359.

Printed for pensis S.

  • Ray, John. Joannis Raii Synopsis methodica stirpium Britannicarum, tum indigenis, tum in agris cultis, locis suis dispositis, additis generum characteristicis, specierum descriptionibus, & virium epitome. Editio secunda: in qua præter multas stirpes & observationes curiosas sparsim insertas; muscorum historia negligenter hactenus & perfunctoriè tradita plurimùm illustratur & augetur, additis & descriptis centum circiter speciebus (totidémq[ue] fucorum atque etiam fungorum) novis & indictis. Accessit clariss. viri D. Aug. Rivini epistola ad Joan. Raium de methodo: cum ejusdem responsoria, in qua D. Tournefort Elementa botanica tanguntur. Londini: impensis S. Smith & B. Walford, Regiæ Societatis Typograph. ad insignia Principis in C.meterio D. Pauli, MDCXCVI. [1696]. ESTC No. R17299. Grub Street ID 66709.