Publications of six-pence apiece

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 six-pence apiece

  • Tillotson, John. Bibliotheca Tillotsoniana: or A catalogue of the curious library of Dr. John Tillotson late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Containing, a collection of Greek and Latin fathers, councils, historians (ecclesiastical and civil) philosophers, poets, orators, lexicographers, &c. all of the best editions and neatly bound. Together with the library of Mr. Seth-Mountley Buncle, late master of Mercers school, London. Consisting of Hebrew, Chaldaick, Syriack, Persick, and other Oriental books, with French, Italian and Spanish. Which will be sold by retail at Mr. Christoph. Bateman's shop, the Bible and Crown in Middle Row, Holborn, on Tuesday April 9. 1695. According to the method of the following page. London]: Catalogues are to be sold for six-pence apiece by Mr. Jos. Hindmarsh over-against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhil; Mr. James Partridge at the Post-Office near Charing-cross; (and at the place of sale.) By Mrs. Dickenson at Cambridge, and Mr. H. Clements at Oxford, 1695. ESTC No. R222271. Grub Street ID 96294.