Publications of T.B. at

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 T.B. at

  • VVit and vvealth contending for preheminence: in a different dialogue between Wat Witty-pole and Davy Rich. You who have wit, or wealth (or both) to looke, are wish't (impartially) upon this booke. London: printed for T.B. at the sign of the Maiden-head, neare Holborn Conduit, 1647. ESTC No. R208168. Grub Street ID 84451.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by T.B. at

  • Stubbe, Henry. A letter to an officer of the Army concerning a select senate mentioned by them in their proposals to the late Parliament. The necessity and prudentialness of such a senate is here asserted by reason and history. Whereunto are added sundry positions about government, and an essay towards a secure settlement. By Henry Stubbe, of Ch. Ch. in Oxon. London: printed, and are to be sold by T.B. at the three Bibles in Paul's Church-yard; and in Westminster-Hall, 1659. ESTC No. R216291. Grub Street ID 91213.