Publications of M.G. and

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 M.G. and

  • Gadbury, John. Cardines coeli: or, An appeal to the learned and experienced observers of sublunars and their vicissitudes, whether the cardinal signs of heaven are most influential upon men and things: proved by X. remarkable genitures, &c. In a reply to the learned author of Cometomantia wherein the character of Gassendus is defended; and sundry other starry truths are justified. By John Gadbury, student in physick and astrology. London: printed for M.G. and sold by Daniel Brown, at the Black-Swan without Temple-Bar, Sam. Sprint, at the Bell in Little-Britain, John Guillim, within Bishops-Gate, booksellers, 1685. ESTC No. R215803. Grub Street ID 90770.