Publications of the Comapny

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 the Comapny

  • Dalton, Michael. Officium vicecomitum. The office and authority of sherifs. Written for the better encouragement of the gentry (upon whom the burthen of this office lyeth) to keep their office, and undersheriff in their houses; that so by their continual care of the business, and eye over their officers, they may the better discharge their duty to God, their prince, and country, in the execution of this thier office. Gathered out of the statutes, and books of the common laws of this kingdom: corrected and very much enlarged. By Michael Dalton late of Lincolnes Inn Esquire, and one of the Masters of the Chancery. London: printed for the Comapny of Stationers, 1662. ESTC No. R227209. Grub Street ID 100116.