Publications of Nicholas Buttolph

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 Nicholas Buttolph

  • Mather, Cotton. A scriptural catechism. The heads of the Christian religion plainly, briefly, and fully delivered in a catechism, which endeavours a sufficient answer to every question, barely with a pertinent sentence of sacred scripture, and enables the learner at once with ease to confirm as well as assert the great articles of the faith once delivered unto the saints. By Cotton Mather. Boston: printed by R. Pierce, for Nicholas Buttolph, at the corner shop, next to Guttridg's Coffee-House, 1691. ESTC No. R213832. Grub Street ID 89190.
  • Mather, Cotton. Fair weather, or, Considerations to dispel the clouds & allay the storms of discontent in a discourse which with an entertaining variety both of argument and history layes open the nature and evil of that pernicious vice and offers diverse antidotes against it / by Cotton Mather ... Boston: Printed by Bartholomew Green and John Allen for Nicholas Buttolph .., 1692. ESTC No. R31227. Grub Street ID 114031.
  • Mather, Increase. The order of the Gospel professed and practised by the churches of Christ in New-England, justified by the Scripture, and by writings of many learned men, both ancient and modern divines : in answer to several questions relating to church discipline / by Increase Mather ... Boston: Printed by B. Green & J. Allen, for Nicholas Buttolph.., 1700. ESTC No. R31185. Grub Street ID 113989.
  • Wadsworth, Benjamin. The blameless Christian. Or, Rules, shewing how Christians should walk, if they would be inoffensive & unrebukable as becomes the sons of God. Being the substance of two lecture sermons, preached March 8th. and April 5th. 1705. in Boston. By Benj. Wadsworth, Pastor of a church of Christ there. [Eleven lines of Scripture texts]. Boston in N. E.: Printed by B. Green, for Nich. Buttolph, at his shop, 1707. ESTC No. W23119. Grub Street ID 333003.
  • Doolittle, Thomas. A prospect of eternity. Wherein is clearly proved, I. That there is an eternity into which all men must enter, when they go out of time. II. That we should eye eternity, and look at eternal things. III. That this looking ought to have an influence upon us in all that we do. By Tho. Doolittle. [Three lines from Matthew]. Boston, N.E.: Printed by John Allen, for Nicholas Buttoplh [sic], at the corner shop at the head of King-Street, 1709. ESTC No. W10318. Grub Street ID 319432.
  • Russel, Robert. Seven sermons: viz. I. Of the unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost: or, The sin unto death. II. The saint's duty and exercise: in two parts: being an exhortation to, & direction for prayer. III. The accepted time and day of salvation. IV. The end of time, and beginning of eternity. V. Joshua's resolution to serve the Lord. VI. The way to heaven made plain. VII. The future state of man: or, A treatise of the resurrection[.] By Robert Russel, at Wadhurst, in Sussex. Boston: Reprinted by John Allen, for Nicholas Buttolph: and are to be sold at his shop in Cornhill, 1715. ESTC No. W252. Grub Street ID 335159.
  • Wadsworth, Benjamin. The saint's prayer to escape temptations. A lecture sermon in Boston, January 6th. 1714,15. By B. Wadsworth, A.M. Pastor of a church in Boston, N.E. [Seven lines from Psalms]. Boston: Printed by B. Green, for Nich. Buttolph & Benj. Eliot: sold at their shops, 1715. ESTC No. W22068. Grub Street ID 331878.
  • Knapp, Francis. Gloria Britannorum: or, The British worthies. A poem. Being an essay on the characters of the most illustrious persons in camp or cabinet, since the Glorious Revolution to this present time. More particularly, of the present ministry, under our most renowned sovereign Lord King George. To which is added, an ode on His Majesty's coronation, and an elegy on the death of the late glorious Duke of Marlborough. By a lover of the present happy constitution. [Two lines from Horace]. Boston: Printed by J. Franklin for N. Buttolph, and sold at his shop in Cornhill, 1723. ESTC No. W12406. Grub Street ID 321674.
  • Dod, John. Old Mr. Dod's sayings; or posies gathered out of Mr. Dod's garden. In two parts. Boston, N.E.: Printed for N. Buttolph in Cornhill, and J. Phillips, at the Stationers Arms next to Mr. Dolbeare's at the head of the town-dock, 1731. ESTC No. W23298. Grub Street ID 333196.