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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 o be

  • B., J.. Ludus Literarum, the sporting of the letters: or, the scholar's recreation. Being a new invention, tending to a speedy attaining knowledge in the tongues. Also, fit, pleasant and profitable for all sorts and capacities of men and women whatever: to be used instead of card-playing. By J.B. A.M. This book of directions, with the packs of letters to be made use of in this learned recreation, are to be sold by Mr. Davis bookseller in Oxford, by Mr. Morden bookseller in Cambridge, and by Stephen Goodall stationer at the sign of the Golden-Cross in Cornhill, near th Royal Exchange in London. The price of the book is one shilling, and the pack of letters four pence, or, if with a box of counters, six pence. London: printed for the author [to be sold by Mr. Davis, Oxford; Mr. Morden, Cambridge, and Stephen Goodall, London], an. 1674. ESTC No. R223948. Grub Street ID 97696.