Publications of S.S. 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 S.S. for

  • Coley, Henry. Nuncius c.lestis, or, Urania's messenger. Being a brief description and survey of the year of humane redemption, 1675. ... Being the third after bissextile, or leap-year ... Wherein is contained (besides the state of the year) the solar ingresses, various configurations, aspects, conjunctions, and diurnal motions of the planets: also an account of such eclipses that shall happen this year, together with useful tabes, and all other furniture that may conduce to the compleating such a work. Accommodated to the meridian of London, ... By Henry Coley native of the cit (and University) of Oxford. London: printed by S.S. for the Company of Stationers, 1675. ESTC No. R213972. Grub Street ID 89305.