Publications of at formerly

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 at formerly

  • Allen, Thomas. A chain of Scripture chronology; from the Creation of the world to the death of Jesus Christ. In VII. periods. Viz. from the Creation to the Flood. Flood to the promise. Promise to the law. Law to the Temple. Temple to the captivity in Babylon. Captivity to the return. Return to the death of Christ. To which is added a chronological table for 600 years after the death of Jesus Christ. By Tho. Allen. London: printed, and are to be sold by John Allen, that formerly lived at the Sun-rising in Little Brittain, and now lives at the White Horse in Wentworth street near White Chappel, 1668. ESTC No. R213943. Grub Street ID 89283.