Publications of O. Blagrave.

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. Blagrave.

  • Phillips, Edward. The beau's academy, or The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing. After the most courtly manner: in which is drawn to the life, the deportment of most accomplished lovers, the mode of their courtly entertainments, the charms of their persuasive language, in their addresses or more secret dispatches. To which are added poems, songs, letters of love and others: proverbs, riddles, jests, posies, devices, with variety of pastimes and diversions, as cross-purposes, the lovers alphabet, &c. Also a dictionary for making rhimes, four hundred and fifty delightful questions, with their several answers. Together with A new invented art of logick: so plain and easie, that the meanest capacity may, in a short time, attain to a perfection of arguing and disputing. London: printed for O. B[lagrave]. and sold by John Sprint, at the Bell in Little-Britain, 1699. ESTC No. R181771. Grub Street ID 72214.