Publications of George May gent

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 George May gent

  • Guildhald. Civit. Exon. Ad general. Session. Pacis tent. apud Guildhaldam civitat. prædict. in & pro civitat. & com. civitat. Exon, decimo sexto die Aprilis, anno regni dom. nostri Caroli secundi dei gratia Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ & Hiberniæ, regis, fidei defensor. &c. tricessimo quinto, annoque Dom. 1683. [S.l.]: Printed for George May book-seller in Exon, anno Dom. 1683. ESTC No. R225833. Grub Street ID 98955.

Author

  • May, George, gent. The VVhite-Powder Plot discovered, or, A prophetical poeme, wherein is most elegantly revealed the secret combination of Hell and Rome, against the interest of true religion, and more particularly against the late King of blessed memory, and kingdom of England. Written before the late unhappy wars broke forth, and too sadly verified in them, which yet the author scarce lived to see. Also a prophetical rapture concerning the future extent of this British Empire into Italy. By George May, gent. London: printed, and are to be sold by Francis Grove, stationer on Snow-hill, and by Francis Mawborn, stationer in York, 1662. ESTC No. R217747. Grub Street ID 92496.