Publications of Roycroft, and

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 Roycroft, and

  • Croke, George. The first part though last publish't of the reports of of Sr George Croke Kt. late one of the justices of the Court of Kings-Bench, and formerly one of the justices of the Court of Common-Bench: of such cases as were adjudged in the said courts, from the 24th to the 44th/45 of the late Queen Elizabeth. Collected and written in French by himself; revised and published in English by Sir Harbottle Grimston Baronet, Master of the Rolls. The third impression, carefully corrected, with the addition of many thousand of references never before printed.. London: Printed by W. Rawlins, S. Roycroft, and H. Sawbridge, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins esquires; and are to be sold by H. Twyford, F. Tyton, H. Herringman, J. Starkey, T. Basset, S. Heyrick, M. Pitt, C. Wilkinson, T. Dring, C. Harper, T. Sawbridge, J. Place, G Collins, M. Wotten and G. Conyers, 1685. ESTC No. R176676. Grub Street ID 69105.