Publications of Thomas Jenner

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 multiple roles in combination (which suggests a likelihood that the person is a trade publisher):

  1. "printed and sold by x"; "printed: and sold by x"; "printed for and sold by x"; or "printed by and for x" and so on.

On this last point, trade publishers such as Mary Cooper appeared in imprints as having "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.

Printers (owners of the type and printing presses, and possibly owners of the copyright) may be identified by the words printed by, but printed by does not universally designate a person who is a printer by trade. Booksellers may be identified by the words sold by, but sold by encompasses a number of roles. Booksellers or individuals who owned the copyright are generally identified by the words printed for, but nothing should be concluded in this regard without further evidence, especially since "printed for" could signify that the named person was a distributor rather than a copyright holder. Trade publishers, who distributed books and pamphlets but did not own the copyright or employ a printer—and were not printers themselves—might be identified by the words printed and sold by. Furthermore, works from this period often display false imprints, whether to evade copyright restrictions, to conceal the name of the copyright holders, or to dupe unwitting customers. Ultimately, one must proceed with caution in using the following lists: designations in the imprints may not reliably reflect the actual trades or roles of the people named, and the formulas used in imprints do not consistently mean the same thing.

David Foxon discussed the "meaning of the imprint" in his Lyell Lecture delivered at Oxford in March 1976, with particular attention to "publishers" in the eighteenth-century context:

The fullest form of an imprint is one which names three people, or groups of people:
     London: printed by X (the printer), for Y (the bookseller who owned the copyright), and sold by Z.
In the eighteenth century the printer's name is rarely given, at least in works printed in London, and the form is more commonly:
     London: printed for Y, and sold by Z.
Very often in this period, and particularly for pamphlets, it is further abbreviated to:
     London: printed and sold by Z.
It is this last form which is my present concern. Z is usually what the eighteenth century called 'a publisher', or one who distributes books and pamphlets without having any other responsibility—he does not own the copyright or employ a printer, or even know the author.

D. F. McKenzie coined the term "trade publisher" for these publishers in his Sandars Lectures, also in 1976, on the grounds that their principal role was to publish on behalf of other members of the book trade (Treadwell 100).

Michael Treadwell cautions that "In this period the imprint 'London: Printed and sold by A.B.' normally means 'Printed at London, and sold by A.B.' and must not be taken to mean that A.B. is a printer in the absence of other evidence." Further, "The imprint 'published by' occurs only rarely in Wing and is almost always associated with the name of a trade publisher" (104). While there are exceptions to the rule, it is "certain," he explains, "that anyone who made a speciality of distributing works for others will show a far higher proportion than normal of imprints in one of the 'sold by' forms" (116), which appear in the imprint as "sold by," "printed and sold by," or "published by" (104). Treadwell gives Walter Kettilby as an example of "a fairly typical copyright-owning bookseller" (106)—his role is almost always designated by the phrase "printed for" on imprints.

A final caution: publisher is a word that should be used with some deliberation. Samuel Johnson defines it simply as "One who puts out a book into the world," but "published by" rarely appears on the imprint until later in the eighteenth century, and then primarily associated with newspapers and pamphlets. Treadwell observes that John Dunton names only five publishers among the 200 binders and booksellers in his autobiographical Life and Errors (1705) wherein he undertakes "to draw the Character of the most Eminent [Stationers] in the Three Kingdoms" (100). Treadwell also remarks, however, that "in law, anyone who offered a work for sale 'published' it. In this sense every work had one or more 'publishers', and every bookseller, mercury, and hawker was a 'publisher'" (114).

See:

  • Terry Belanger, "From Bookseller to Publisher: Changes in the London Book Trade, 1750–1850," in Book Selling and Book Buying. Aspects of the Nineteenth-Century British and North American Book Trade, ed. Richard G. Landon (Chicago: American Library Association, 1978).
  • Bricker, Andrew Benjamin. "Who was 'A. Moore'? The Attribution of Eighteenth-Century Publications with False and Misleading Imprints," in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 110.2 (2016).
  • John Dunton, The Life and Errors of John Dunton (London: Printed for S. Malthus, 1705).
  • John Feather, "The Commerce of Letters: The Study of the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade," Eighteenth-Century Studies 17 (1984).
  • David Foxon, Pope and the Early Eighteenth-Century Book Trade, ed. James McLaverty (Oxford University Press, 1991).
  • Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language, (printed for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755).
  • D.F. McKenzie, The London Book Trade in the Later Seventeenth Century (Sandars lectures in bibliography, 1977).
  • Michael Treadwell, "London Trade Publishers 1675–1750," The Library sixth series, vol. 4, no. 2 (1982).

Printed for Thomas Jenner

  • Lancton, Thomas. The land of Canaan as it was possessed by the twelve tribes, the promised land or whole Palestina. With all the townes and places which the scripture nameth in them are exactly set down. So that there is not the name of any city, town, countrey, mountaine, river, wildernesse, or plaine mentioned in scripture, within the land of Canaan, or in any countries about them, but are inserted, and in their true graduations observed. Their notations by scriptures and diversities of names whereby many of them are called. As also most of the chiefest actions happening in every severall tribe by figures marked, ... whereby they may be readily known and found. All tending. To make more plaine unto us the histories of the holy scriptures both in the Old and New Testament. Moreover a large description of the temple that Salomon builded, ... If any be desirous to finde out a towne in this map of the land of Canaan, let him looke it in the alphabet, and there he shall see in what longitude and latitude . London: printed by M. Simmons for Thomas Jenner at the South entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1652. ESTC No. R206789. Grub Street ID 83264.

Author

  • Jenner, Thomas. A new booke of mapps exactly describing Europe both the present as now it standeth and ancient state thereof The distributions of places & originall names of kingdomes provinces ileands regions rivers citties & the like Together w[i]th ye mutation of [them] by sundry accidents in processe of tyme A work allowed of as beeing necessary to the furtherance helpe & light of ye pleasant profitable studye of histories eclesiasticall poeticall or chrononical usefull for all sorts of people. [London]: Tho. Jenner excu:, [1645?]. ESTC No. R216552. Grub Street ID 91433.
  • Jenner, Thomas. Divine mysteries that cannot be seene, made plaine by that which may be seene. Or, Teachings by parables. So that those things which the understanding would not so easily be made capable of by words, may with much delight be brought into it by visible appearances. Collecte from the sermons of severall divines of London; as illustrations which they have used, for explaining of things that are hard to be understood. The outward simile and spirituall application brought into verse. [London]: Sold by Thomas Jenner at the south entrance of the Royall Exchange, London, 1651. ESTC No. R188913. Grub Street ID 76668.
  • Jenner, Thomas. Londons blame, if not its shame: manifested by the great neglect of the fishery, which affordeth to our neighbor nation yeerly, the revenue of many millions, which they take up at our doors, whilst with the sluggard, we fold our hands in our bosoms and will not stretch the forth to our mouths. Or the inestimable riches of the British seas, ... whereof this book doth give a plentiful account, the which we may in some measure thus accomplish: let every ward in London build a buss, and money to do it may be thus raised. ... Dedicated by Thomas Jenner to the corporation of the poor, in the City of London, being a member thereof, ... [London]: Printed for T[homas] J[enner] at the south entrance of the Royal Exchange, 1651. ESTC No. R202638. Grub Street ID 79864.
  • Jenner, Thomas. The path of life, and the way that leadeth down to the chambers of death. Or, The steps to hell, and the steps to heaven. In which all men may see their ways, how far they have gone downwards to destruction, that they may make hast to recover themselves, least by taking the next step downwards to their everlasting misery, they be not necessitated to take the 7, 8, 9, and then there be no remedy. So seeing themselves having ascended towards heaven, they may not be sloathfull but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. Set forth in copper prints, that by the outward and visible we may the easier see that which is inward and invisible. London: printed by M.S. for Thomas Jenner, at the South-entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1656. ESTC No. R26181. Grub Street ID 109531.
  • Jenner, Thomas. The path of life, and the way that leadeth down to the chambers of death. Or, The steps to Hell, and the steps to Heaven. Inwhich [sic] all men may see their ways, how far they have gone downwards to destruction, that they may make hast [sic] to recover themselves, least by taking the next step downwards to their everlasting misery, they be not necessitated to take the 7, 8, 9 and then there be no remedy. So seeing themselves having ascended towards Heaven, they may not be sloathfull but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. Set forth in copper prints, that by the outward and visible we may the easier see that which is in ward and invisible. London: printed by M. S. for Thomas Jenner, at the South-entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1656. ESTC No. R217054. Grub Street ID 91885.
  • Jenner, Thomas. A work for none but angels & men that is, to be able to look into, and to know our selves. Or A book shewing what the soule is, subsisting and having its operations without the body; its more then a perfection or reflection of the sense, or temperature of humours; not traduced from the parents subsisting by it self without the body: how she exercises her powers in the body the vegetative or quickning power of the senses. Of the imagination or common sense, ... Of the wit, understanding, reason, ... Of the intellectuall memory, ... Thomas Jenner has lineas composuit. London: printed by M[ary]. S[immons]. for Thomas Jenner, at the south-entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1658. ESTC No. R27853. Grub Street ID 110989.
  • Jenner, Thomas. A new booke of mapps exactly describing Europe :both the present as now it standeth and ancient state thereof the distributions of places & originall names of kingdomes provinces ileands regions rivers citties & the like. Together w[i]th ye mutation of ym [sic] by sundry accidents in processe of tyme. A work allowed of as beeing necessary to the furtherance helpe & light of ye pleasant profitable studye of histories eclesiasticall poeticall or chrononical. London] : Printed and sold by Iohn Garrett, ..., [1676?]. ESTC No. T301005. Grub Street ID 261206.