Publications of William Bentley:

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 William Bentley:

  • Chamberlen, Peter. A voice in Rhama: or, The crie of women and children. Ecchoed forth in the compassions of Peter Chamberlen, Doctour in Physick, Fellow of the Colledge of London, and one of his Majesties physicians extraordinary. London: printed by William Bentley: for John Marshall, and are to be sold at his shop at the Hand and Pen in Corn-hill, over against the Royall Exchange, anno Domini 1647. ESTC No. R208153. Grub Street ID 84441.