Publications of F: N:

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 F: N:

  • Sheppard, Samuel. Merlinus anonymus. An almanack, and no almanack. A kalendar, and no kalendar. An ephemeris (between jest, and earnest) for the year, 1653. Monthly observations, and chronologicall annotations, on things past, present, and to come. With a prognostication, and plenary prediction as well on the eclipses of divers, as the aspects of the planets, (Peregrine) and the motions of terestiall bodies. Also a meteorologicall diary, fitted for the use of citizen, and country-man, in a novell, but pleasing method. Intended especially for the horizon of Saint George-street Southwark, where the pole is elevated 1200 inches from that of China, but may indifferently serve for all climates, countries, and continents. By Raphael Desmus, philologist. London: printed by F: N:, 1653. ESTC No. R209240. Grub Street ID 85460.