Publications of I.H. for

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 I.H. for

  • The best newes from York, that ever came to London and VVestminster. Containing, His Majsties most gracious resolution to returne to his Parliament; with his determination to be resident at at [sic] his pallace at Whitehall, where he may the better comply with his two Houses of Peeres and Commons. To the joy of all the Kings true hearted and loyally disposed subjects. With the contents of a letter lately sent from the Queenes Majestie to the King, concerning her desire, that His Majestie and the Parliament may concurre together. Printed at London: by I.H. for T. Powel, 1642. Iuly 1. ESTC No. R20889. Grub Street ID 85109.

Printed for I.H. for

  • Taylor, John. A delicate, dainty, damnable dialogue, between the Devill and a Jesuite. By Iohn Taylor. London: printed for I.H. for Thomas Banks [sic], 1642. ESTC No. R212745. Grub Street ID 88298.