Publications of a counterfeit

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 and for, or by/for and sold by a counterfeit

  • A true account of the rise and growth of the reformation, or the progress of the Protestant religion. Setting forth the lives and dying speeches of the first and most famous doctors of the Protestant church, their constancy and stedfastness in the same to their deaths an cruel martyrdomes they suffered by those bloody cruel papists, and now printed and published as a thankful remembrance of God's goodness to all protestants in these three kingdomes of England, Scotland and Ireland, and necessary to be set up in every house and family. And recommended to all person by these reverend divines, Mr. W.I. Mr. R.B. Mr. N.V. London]: That the reader be not deceived by a counterfeit sheet (full of many falshoods) in imitation of this, the true sheet is only printed and sold by Ioshua Conyers at the Black Raven in Duck Lane, 1680. ESTC No. R222960. Grub Street ID 96884.