Publications of Thomas Speed

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 Thomas Speed

  • Dawes, William. Sermons preach'd upon several occasions, none of them before printed. By Sir William Dawes, ... Cambridge: printed at the University-press: and are to be sold by Thomas Speed, London, 1707. ESTC No. N24179. Grub Street ID 13539.

Printed for Thomas Speed

  • Child, Josiah. The great honor and advantage of the East-India trade to the kingdom, asserted. London: printed for Thomas Speed at the Three Crowns near the Royal-Eschange in Cornhill, 1697. ESTC No. R213948. Grub Street ID 89286.