Publications of D.M., 1679

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 D.M., 1679

  • Haines, Richard. A profitable method compiled for the benefit of all indigent people, so effectually drawn into a modell, the like before has not been exposed to this our English-nation: wherein is particularized, the several orders and degrees, for the promotion of the linnen manufacture, as also the management and farther improvement of the said benificial exercise to the great encouragement of his Majesties distressed subjects, as likewise for the disburthening the charge of parishes throughout the nation. Humbly offered to the consideration of the great wisdom of th nation, viz. His most Excellent Majesty, and both Houses of Parliament, by R. H. London]: With allowance, London printed for D.M., 1679. ESTC No. R218874. Grub Street ID 93474.