Publications of Thomas Chapman

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 Thomas Chapman

  • Spencer redivivus containing the first book of the Fairy queen, his essential design preserv'd, but his obsolete language and manner of verse totally laid aside. Deliver'd in heroick numbers, by a person of quality. Licensed September 21. 1686. R. L'Estrange. London: printed for Thomas Chapman at the Chirurgeons Arms over against the upper Meuse Gate near Charing-Cross, 1687. ESTC No. R15355. Grub Street ID 63300.
  • Kettlewell, John. An help and exhortation to worthy communicating. Or, a treatise describing the meaning, worthy reception, duty, and benefits of the Holy Sacrament. And answering the doubts of conscience, and other reasons which most generally detain men from it. Together with suitable devotions added. The second edition. By John Kettlewell, Vicar of Coles-hill in Warwick-shire. London: printed for Thomas Chapman, at the Chyrurgions-Arms over aginst the upper Mews-Gate near Charing-Cross, MDCLXXXVII. [1687]. ESTC No. R179212. Grub Street ID 70726.