Publications of Oxford, Anno

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 Oxford, Anno

  • Owen, John. The advantage of the kingdom of Christ, in the shaking of the kingdoms of the world: or, Providential alterations in their subserviencie to Christ's exaltation. Opened, in a sermon preached to the Parliament, Octob. 24. 1651. a solemn day of thanksgiving for the destruction of the Scots army at Worcester, with sundry other mercies; by John Owen, minister of the Gospel. Tuesday the 28 of Octob. 1651. Ordered by the Parliament, that the thanks of this house be given to M. Owen Dean of Christ-Church in Oxford, for his great pains taken in his sermon preached before the Parliament at Margarets Westminster, on Friday the 24 of October (being a day set apart for publike thanksgiving;) and that he be desired to print his sermon: and that he have the like priviledge in printing the same, as others in like case have usually had: and that the Lord General do give him the thanks of this house, and desire him to print his sermon accordingly. Hen. Scobel, Cler. Parliament. [London]: Imprinted at Oxford, Anno 1651 and re-printed at London, [1651]. ESTC No. R218595. Grub Street ID 93240.