Publications of M. Simons

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 M. Simons

  • Vicars, John. Gods arke overtopping the worlds waves, or the third part of the Parliamentary chronicle. Containing a successive continuation and exact and faithful narration of all the most materiall parliamentary proceedings & memorable mercies wherewith God hath crowned this famous present Parliament and their armies in all the severall parts of the land; the famous seiges, defeats, battails, victories and prizes obtained and taken by land & sea; the appeasing of the Kentish-rebellion; Hulls admirable preservation; the famous victories at Horn castle, Aulton, Alsford, Selby, and Arundell-Castle; discoveries and disappointments of many desperate plots and designes against the Parliament; the establishing of a new great seal of England; the advance and actions of our brethren the Scots amoung us; ... Collected and published for Gods high honour and the great encouragement of all that are zealous for God and lovers of their country. By the most unworthy admirer of them, John Vicars. London: printed by M. Simons, and J. Macock, 1646 [i.e. 1645]. ESTC No. R200473. Grub Street ID 77980.