Publications of R. I.

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. I.

  • Powell, Vavasor. Christ and Moses excellency, or Sion and Sinai's glory. Being a triplex treatise, distinguishing and explaining the two covenants or the gospel and law: and directing to the right understanding applying, and finding of the informing and assuring promises, that belong to both Covenants. By Vavasor Povvell, preacher of the Gospel in Wales. London: printed by R. I. for Hannah Allen, at the Crown in Popes-head-Alley, 1650. ESTC No. R208890. Grub Street ID 85110.

Printed for R. I.

  • The true manner of the kings tryal at Westminster-Hall, by the high court of Justice, from the twentieth day of January 1649, to the seven and twentieth of the same month. Also the true manner of his being put to death at White-hall, near the Banqueting House the 30 of January, with his speech made upon the scaffold before he was beheaded. To the tune of Aim not too high. London: printed for R. I. And entred according to Order, [1650]. ESTC No. R185581. Grub Street ID 74595.

Author

  • I., R.. The history of Tom Thumbe, the little, for his small stature surnamed, King Arthurs dwarfe: whose life and aduentures containe many strange and wonderfull accidents, published for the delight of merry time-spenders. Imprinted at London: [by A. Mathewes?] for Tho: Langley, 1621. ESTC No. S93107. Grub Street ID 151697.