Publications of George. Purlsow

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 George. Purlsow

  • Johnson, Richard. The most pleasant history of Tom A Lincoln that ever renowned souldier the Red-Rose Knight who for his valour and chivalry, was sir-named the Boast of England. Shewing his honourable victories in forrain countries, with his strange fortunes in the fairy-land: and how he married the faire Anglitora, daughter to Prester John, that renowned monarch of the world. Together with the lives and deaths of his two famous sons, the Black Knight, and the Fairy Knight, with divers other memorable accidents, full of delight. The tenth impression.. London: printed by G[eorge]. Purlsow, for F[rancis]. Coles, on Saffron-Hill, in Wine-street neer Hatten-Garden, 1668. ESTC No. R179113. Grub Street ID 70669.