Publications of Iohn Wright

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 Iohn Wright

  • An ordinance and declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that the Lord Major and citizens of the city of London, for the better securing and safety thereof, shall have full power and authority according to their discretion, to trench, stop, and fortifi all high-waies leading into the said city, as well within the liberties, as without, as they shall see cause. And for the better effecting thereof, shall impose upon all the inhabitants within the same, upon every house worth 5 ?. a yeare six pence, and every house of greater rent after the rate of two pence in the pound. Also, an ordinance of both houses for an assessement to be made in the severall parishes of England for the reliefe of maymed souldiers, widdows, and fatherlesse children. Die Martis, 7 Martii. 1642. Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that these two ordinances shal be forthwith printed and published. Io. Browne Cler. Parliamentorum. London: printed for I[ohn] Wright in the Old Bailey, March 8. 1642 [i.e. 1643]. ESTC No. R175137. Grub Street ID 68114.