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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 and are

  • Hocus pocus junior. The anatomy of legerdemain; or, The art of jugling. Set forth in its proper colours, fully, plainly, and exactly; so that an ignorant person may thereby learn the full perfection of the same, after a little practice. Unto each trick is added the figure, where it is needful for instruction. The tenth edition, with many additions.. London]: Printed by and are to be sold by J. Deacon; at the sign of the Rainbow, a little above St. Andrew's-Church, in Holborn, 1683. ESTC No. R218016. Grub Street ID 92732.

Printed for and are

  • Chamberlayne, Edward. The second part of the present state of England· Together with divers reflections upon the antient state thereof. By Edw. Chamberlayne, Doctor of Laws. The twelfth edition, with several additions, and very many alterations.. London: printed for and are to be sold by R[ichard]. Bently in Covent-Garden, 1684. ESTC No. R173654. Grub Street ID 67054.