Publications of r Michael

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 r Michael

  • Prynne, William. The soveraigne povver of parliaments & kingdomes. Or Second part of the Treachery and disloialty of papists to their soveraignes. Wherein the Parliaments and kingdomes right and interest in, and power over the militia, ports, forts, navy, ammunition of the realme, ... their right and interest to nominate and elect all needfull commanders, to exercise the militia for the kingdomes safety, and defence: ... to recommend and make choise of the Lord Chancellor, Keeper, Treasurer, Privy Seale, privie counsellors, iudges, and sheriffes of the kingdome, ... with the Parliaments late assertion; that the King hath no absolute negative voice in passing publicke bills of right and iustice, ... when both houses deeme them necessary and just: ... It is this 28th. day of March, 1643. ordered ... that this booke intituled, The soveraigne power of parliaments and kingdomes, be forthwith printed by Michael Sparke, Senior. Iohn White. Printed at London: by J[ohn]. D[awson]. for Michael Sparke, Senior, 1643. ESTC No. R182239. Grub Street ID 72481.