Publications of I.B. and

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 I.B. and

  • Younge, Richard. The cure of preivdice, or, The doves of innocency and the serpents subtilty, wherein the originall, continuance, properties, causes, endes, issue and effects of the worlds envie and hatred to the godly is pithily laid open and applyed. By R. Junius. London: printed by I.B. and are to be sold by James Crump, at his house in Well-Yard in little S. Bartholmews, 1641. ESTC No. R230928. Grub Street ID 103143.

Printed for I.B. and

  • A helpe to discourse: or, more merriment mixt with serious matters. Consisting of witty philosophicall, grammaticall, physicall, astronomicall questions and answers. As also, epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, jests, posies, love-toyes, &c. re-added and plentifully dispersed. Together with The country-mans counsellor, and his yearly oracle and prognostication, with additions, or a helpe to preserve his health, never before printed. London: printed by M[oses]. B[ell]. for I.B. and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke, at the signe of the green Dragon in Pauls Church-Yard, 1648. ESTC No. R224521. Grub Street ID 98153.