Publications of hn Benson

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 hn Benson

  • Playford, John. A booke of new lessons for the cithern & gittern: containing many new and excellent tunes, both easie and delightfull to the practitioner. With plain and easie instructions, teaching the right use of the hand, and perfect tuning of both instruments, never before printed. Loundon [i.e. London]: printed by T.H. for John Benson and John Playford, and to be sold at their shops, in St. Dunstans Church-Yard, and in the Inner Temple, near the church door, 1652. ESTC No. R218766. Grub Street ID 93384.