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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 e new

  • Shelton, Thomas. A new art of short-vvriting. A more easie and speedy way, then was ever yet published, or taught. Newly invented and composed, by Thomas Shelton, author and teacher of the sayd art; at the lower end of Cheapside, near the church in the Poultry. Allowed by authority. This whole art being every word framed out of the 24 letters, not charging momory with any one strange marke; an ordinary capacity may learne the grounds of it fully in lesse than two houres time. By this art, sermons or other speeches may be taken verbatim, or private accounts kept, and as much writte in the space of one line, as is contained in six lines in any ordinary hand. Those that desire them, may have Psalme bookes written in this art, at the authors house. [London]: The new book of this art, formerly promised, is now compleated and printed, and are [sic] sold at the authors house; and by G. Whittington, at the Blew Anchor in Cornhill, 1649. ESTC No. R227553. Grub Street ID 100453.