Publications of Bonham Norton

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 Bonham Norton

  • A commission with instructions and directions, granted by his Majesty to the Master and Counsaile of the Court of Wards and Liveries. For compounding for wards, ideots, and lunaticks. And given under His Highnesse great seale of England the 21. of August 1622. London: printed by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, printers to the Kings most Excellent Majestie, 1622. And now reprinted for H.H., 1643. ESTC No. R17826. Grub Street ID 70060.
  • Calliepeia: or A rich store-house of proper, choise, and elegant Latine words, and phrases, collected (for the most part) out of all Tullies workes: and for the vse and benefit of scholars, digested into an alphabeticall order. By Thomas Drax. London: Printed by [B. Norton and J. Bill for] Iohn Bill, 1618. ESTC No. S116624. Grub Street ID 136312.
  • [The booke of common prayer, and administration of the sacrements, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church of England.]. [Imprinted at London: by B. Norton and J. Bill and assignees of R. Barker, 1618]. ESTC No. S124790. Grub Street ID 144093.
  • Lily, William. Lillies rules construed, wherunto are added Tho. Robertsons Heteroclites, the Latine Syntaxis, and Qui mihi. London: Printed by Bonham Norton, Printer to the kings most excellent maiestie, in the Latine, Greeke, and Hebrew, 16[33?]. ESTC No. S113022. Grub Street ID 132767.

Printed for Bonham Norton

  • Hill, Adam. The crie of England. A sermon preached at Paules Crosse in September 1593. by Adam Hill Doctor of Diuinitie, & published at the request of the then Lord Maior of the citie of London, and others the aldermen his brethren. London: Printed by Ed. Allde, for B. Norton, 1595. ESTC No. S115191. Grub Street ID 134886.
  • Gerard, John. The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie. Imprinted at London: by [Edm. Bollifant for [Bonham Norton and] Iohn Norton, 1597. ESTC No. S122353. Grub Street ID 141904.
  • By the King. A proclamation for remouing the receipt of his Maiesties Exchequer from Westminster to Richmond. Printed at Oxford: By I[ohn] L[ichfield]. and W[illiam]. T[urner]. for Bonham Norton, and Iohn Bill [London], printers to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie, 1625. ESTC No. S123752. Grub Street ID 143210.
  • Charles by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting. Whereas the Lords spirituall and temporall, now assembled in Parliament vpon the sixt day of this instant moneth of August, entring into a due and Christian consideration of the wants and extremities, which many poore people inhabiting in or neere the cities and suburbs of London and Westminster doe vndergoe by reason of the grieuous visitation of the plague ... Printed at Oxford: [by John Lichfield and William Turner for Bonham Norton and John Bill, London, 1625]. ESTC No. S122676. Grub Street ID 142206.