Publications of William Larner

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 William Larner

  • Rowley, Alexander. Hever le-talmidim Synergos tois mathetais. Sodalis discipulis. The schollers companion, or a little library, containing all the interpretations of the Hebrew and Greek Bible, by all authors, first into the Latine. And now (with the English of every Latine word added thereunto) brought into a pocket book. Not onely for the eas of the learned, but also that the unlearned may come to the knowledge of both Testaments in the originall tongues. By A.R. Imprinted at London: by M. Bell, for William Larner at the Blackmore neere Bishopsgate, and George Whittington at the blew Anchor in Cornhill neer the Exchange, 1648. ESTC No. R203423. Grub Street ID 80520.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by William Larner

  • Coppin, Richard. Saul smitten for not smiting Amalek according to the severity of the command: and the residue of the spoil sentenced to death, which Saul preserved and spared alive, (to wit) man, woman, infant, suckling, oxe, sheep, camel and ass. Being an allegorical allusion to the present passages of the times, delivered in a sermon at Somerset-House, May 1. upon the dissolution of the late Parliament. Also, a great and notable blow is given at the serpent, the ruine of the whore and her familie determined; wherein is discovered what she was, and is, and the several husband that have married her, deceased from her, and been decieved by her; also the several children which by her have been brought forth and nursed up, with a dissolution of all unjust government, laws rules and worships exercised over mens lives, liberties and estates, and the restoring of all just government, the peoples rights and priviledges by the Lord Jesus, into its perfect state. As apprehended by Richard Coppin. London: printed, and are to be sold by WIlliam Larner at the Blackmore head, in Fleet-bridge, and by Richard Moon at the Seven Stars near the North door of Pauls, 1653. ESTC No. R207121. Grub Street ID 83544.