Publications of I. Darby

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 I. Darby

  • Colson, Nathaniel. The mariners new kalendar. Containing the principles of arithmetick and geometry; with the extraction of the square and cube root. Also rules for finding the prime, epact, moons-age, times of high-water; with tables for the same. Together with exact tables of the suns place, declination, and right ascension. Of the right ascension and declination of the principal fixed stars. Of the latitude and longitude of places. A large table of difference of latitude and departure for the exact working a traverse. Also the description and use of the sea-quadrant, forestaff and nocturnal. The problems of plain sailing and astronomy, wrought by the logarithms and by Gunter's scale. A rutter for the coasts of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, &c. And the soundings coming into the Channel. With directions for sailing into some principal harbors. The third edition. By Nath. Colson student in the mathematicks. London: printed by I. Darby for William Fisher, at the Postern-Gate near Tower-Hill; Robert Boulter, at the Turks-Head, and Ralph Smith, at the Bible in Corn-Hill, near the Royal Exchange, 1679. ESTC No. R203075. Grub Street ID 80214.