Publications of M. Simmons.

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 M. Simmons.

  • L., T.. Polypentheos threnodia= The mourners song. Or a voyce out of the wilderness crying, with many tears and strong perswasions to the world for repentance. Proving by undenyable grounds from the word of God, that the great day of his righteous judgement shall certainly be in this present age, before 61. years after this present yeare 1651. shall be expired. And unfolding many great and wonderfull mysteries of God forespoken in his word, to come to passe and be fulfilled, from the rising of Julius Cæsar, first emperour of Rome, to this present time, and from hence to that great day of the Lord. ... Exprest in a very high propheticall stile, and clear evidence of the spirit, and of power from above, which the judicious Christian reader may well perceive. London: printed by M. S[immons]., 1651. ESTC No. R221982. Grub Street ID 96048.