Publications of Tho: Simmons

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 Tho: Simmons

  • Fox, George. The great mistery of the great whore unfolded: and antichrists kingdom revealed unto destruction. In answer to many false doctrines and principles which Babylons merchants have traded with, being held forth by the professed ministers, and teachers, and professors in England, Ireland, and Scotland, taken under their owne hands, and from their owne mouths, sent forth by them from time to time, against the despised people of the Lord called Quakers, who are of the seed of that woman, who hath been long fled into wildernes. Also an invasion upon the great city Babylon, with the spoling of her golden cup, and delicate merchandize, whereby she hath deceived the world and nations: and herein is declared the spoyling of her prey, in this answer to the multitude of doctrines held forth by the many false sects, which have lost the key of knowledge, and been o foot since the apostles dayes, called Anabaptists, Independents, Presbyters, Ranters, and many others; who out of their own mouths have ma. London: printed for Tho: Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate, 1659. ESTC No. R18020. Grub Street ID 71334.