Publications of Iohn Legat

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 by Iohn Legat

  • Perkins, William. The fovndation of Christian religion, gathered into six principles. And it is to be learned of ignorant people that they may be fit to heare sermons with profit, and to receive the Lords Supper with comfort. London: printed by Iohn Legat and are to be sold at the signe of the Bear in Paules Church-yard, 1645. ESTC No. R221961. Grub Street ID 96028.

Printed for Iohn Legat

  • Perkins, William. A case of conscience, the greatest that euer was; hovv a man may know whether he be the childe of God, or no. Resolued by the word of God. Whereunto is added a briefe discourse, taken out of Hier. Zanchius. London: Printed [by Adam Islip] for Iohn Legat [, Cambridge], 1595. ESTC No. S114488. Grub Street ID 134198.