Publications of Michaell Sparke

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 Michaell Sparke

  • Prynne, William. A breviate of the life, [sic] of VVilliam Laud Arch-bishop of Canterbury: extracted (for the most part) verbatim, out of his owne diary, and other writings, under his owne hand. Collected and published at the speciall instance of sundry honourable persons, as a necessary prologue to the history of his tryall; for which the criminall part of his life, is specially reserved. By William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquier. It is ordered this sixteenth day of August 1644. By the Committee of the House of Commons assembled in Parliament concerning printing, that this booke intituled, A breviate of the life of William Laud, &c. bee printed by Michaell Sparke Senior. John VVhite. London: printed by F. L[each]. for Michaell Sparke Senior, and are to bee sold at the Blew-Bible in Green-Arbour, 1644. ESTC No. R187846. Grub Street ID 75977.