Publications of stributed by

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 stributed by

  • Scott, Robert. Catalogus librorum Roberti Scott, bibliopolae regii Londinensis. In quavis lingua & facultate insignium ex variis Europae partibus advectorum, quorum auctio habenda est Londini, ad insigne ursi in vico (vulgo dicto) Ave-Mary-Lane, prope Ludgate-street, decimo tertio die Februarii, 1687/8. Per Benjaminum Walford, bibliopolam Londinensem. London]: Catalogues are distributed by Mr. William Nott, and Mr. Holford in the Pall-Mall. Mr. Willis in Kings-Street Westminster. Mr. Fox in Westminster-Hall. Mr. Lownds near the Savoy in the Strand. Mr. Wilkinson at the Black Boy in Fleet-street. Mr. Rich. Chiswell in St. Paul's Church-yard. Mr. Peter Parker over against the Royal Exchange. Mr. Turner near Turn-Stile in Holbourn, Mr. Benj. Shirly in Oxford, booksellers. Mr. Hayes printer in Cambridge, and Mr. Adiel Mill stationer at the Peacock in Amen-Corner, London, [1688. ESTC No. R20029. Grub Street ID 77833.