Publications of Tho: Dovvnes

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 Tho: Dovvnes

  • Ussher, James. A body of divinitie, or The summe and substance of Christian religion; catechistically propounded, and explained, by way of question and answer: methodically and familiarly handled. Collected long since out of sundry authors, and reduced unto one common method, by James Vssher B. of Armagh. And now, this second edition, corrected and much amended. Whereinto is adjoyned a tract, intituled Immanuel, or The mystery of the incarnation of the son of God. Heretofore written and published by the same authour. London: printed by M[iles]. F[lesher]. for Tho: Dovvnes and Geo: Badger, and are to be sold in S. Dunstans Church-yard, and at the three Daggers, near the Inner-Temple gate in Fleetstreet, MDCXLVII. [1647]. ESTC No. R18996. Grub Street ID 76801.