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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 for o formerly

  • The first steps, and following degrees vvhereby Popish pomp, superstition & idolatry succeeded, and is now, vainly, endeavouring to extirpate gospel innocency, and Christian simplicity. Discovered under these XIV. heads, viz. I. angels. II. The Bishop of Rome. III. The election of Presbyters. IV. The Church. V. The Cross. VI. Garments. VII. The image of Christ. VIII. Lights. IX Name Jesus. X Reliques. XI. Lords tables. XII. Saints images. XIII. The sacrament of the Lords Supper. XIV. Bells. London: printed by T[homas]. Dawks: who formerly publish'd (from this author) a chronology of the rise and growth of Popery, shewing the time, when, and the persons who, introduced it. None of their foolerys appearing in the Church till 300 years after Christ, [1681?]. ESTC No. R177064. Grub Street ID 69323.