Publications of Tho. Beaver

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 and for, or by/for and sold by Tho. Beaver

  • G., R.. The compleat constable. Directing all constables, headboroughs, tithingmen, churchwardens, overseers of the poor, surveyors of the highways, and scavengers, in the duty of their several offices, according to the power allowed them by the laws and statutes: continued to this present time, 1700. Also directions for the London constables. To which is added a treatise of warrants and commitments, proper for the knowledge of all constables, &c. The 2d edition with aditions [sic].. London: printed, and are to be sold by Tho. Beaver at the Hand and Star near Temple-Bar, 1700. ESTC No. R202163. Grub Street ID 79414.