Publications of the authours

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 authours

  • Howell, William. An institution of general history: or The history of the world. The third part. Containing that of the Constantinopolitan Roman Empire and the contemporaries with it: all distinctly by themselves, and yet linked together as the former parts were. From the taking of Rome by Odoacer, and the exile of Zeno the Emperour, to the deposing of Irene and promotion of Nicephorus: with an account of the several actions, polities, laws and things of moment, during the reign of each emperour, and the original atchievements and polity of the Franks, the dominion of the Goths, Saracens, Arabians and Moors in Spain and Gall within this period. By William Howel, LL.D. sometimes Fellow of Magdalen College in Cambridge. London: printed for the authours widow, by Miles Flesher, MDCLXXXV. [1685]. ESTC No. R229122. Grub Street ID 101712.