Publications of their sakes

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 their sakes

  • Bernard, Nicholas. The still-borne nativitie, or a copy of an incarnation sermon, that should have been delivered at St. Margarets-Westminster, on Saturday, December the five and twenty, 1647. in the afternoone, by N.B but prevented by the committee for plunder'd ministers who sent and seized the preacher, carried him from the vestry of the said church, and committed him to the Fleet, for his undertaking to preach without the license of Parliament. Now published by the authoritie of that Scripture which saith, preach the Word, be instant, in season, out of season. 2. Tim. 4.2. London: printed for their sakes who love our Lord Jesus and his birth day, anno Dom. 1648. ESTC No. R18366. Grub Street ID 73488.