Publications of the especiall

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 the especiall

  • Bastwick, John. The letany of John Bastvvick, Doctor of Phisicke, being now full of devotion, as well in respect of the common calamities of plague and pestilence; as also of his owne patticular [sic] miserie: lying at this instant in Limbo Patrum. Set downe in two letters to Mr. Aquila Wykes, keeper of the Gatehouse, his good angell. In which there is an universall challenge to the vvhole world, to prove the parity of ministers, to be jure divino. Also a full demonstration, that the bishops are neither Christs, nor the Apostles successors, but enemies of Christ and his kingdome, and of the Kings most excellent Majesties prerogative royall. ... [Leiden]: Printed [by Willem Christiaens] by the speciall procurement, and for the especiall use of our English prelats, in the yeare of remembrance, anno 1637. ESTC No. R212827. Grub Street ID 88374.