Publications of the order

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 the order

  • Chamberlen, Hugh. A description of the Office of Credit; by the use of which, none can possibbly [sic] sustain loss, but every man may certainly receive great gain and wealth. With a plain demontration [sic], how a man may trade for six times his stock, and never be trusted; and that (if generally received) there can afterwards no accident happen to cause a deadness or slowness of trade, except warrs, nor need men make any more bad debts. With divers other publick and paivate [sic] conveniences and profits: as also objections hitherto made against it, largely and fully answered. London: Printed by the order of the Society, for Thomas Rooks, 1665. ESTC No. R20510. Grub Street ID 81923.