Publications of J.B. Thomas

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 J.B. Thomas

  • Wingate, Edmund. The exact constable, with his original, and power in all cases belonging to his office. As also the office of church-wardens, overseers of the poor, surveyors of the high-ways, treasurers of the county stock, parish clerks, governors of fairs, and other inferiour officers, as they are at this day establisht both by the common laws and statutes of this kingdom. By E.W. of Grays-Inn, Esq; the sixth edition. Whereto is added, the office of a London constable. London: printed for J.B. Thomas Passenger, and Thomas Sawbridge, 1682. ESTC No. R219596. Grub Street ID 94106.