Publications of B.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 by B.G. and

  • Hickes, William. Oxford drollery: being new poems, and songs. The first part, composed by W.H. The second and third parts being upon several occasions, made by the most eminent and ingenious wits of the said university. And collected by the same author. The like never before published. Oxford [i.e. London]: printed by B.G. and are to be sold by Dan. Major and Tho. Orrel at the Flying-horse, and Hand and Scepter against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, 1679. ESTC No. R216851. Grub Street ID 91710.

Printed for B.G. and

  • Artemidorus, Daldianus.. The interpretation of dreams digested into five books by that ancient and excellent philosopher, Artemidorus / compiled by him in Greek and translated afterward into the Latine, the Italian, the French, and Spanish tongues, and now more exactly rendred into English . The tenth edition, much corrected by an old original copy, with the life of the author, with many more additions; with the judgment of some of our modern English writers concerning the good use to be made of some dreams ; and the table very much amended.. London: Printed for B.G. and S.K. and are to be sold by Tho. Bever, 1690. ESTC No. R29121. Grub Street ID 112140.