Publications of J.B. who

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 J.B. who

  • Cock, Thomas. Kitchin-physick: or, Advice to the poor, by way of dialogue betwixt Philanthropos, physician, Eugenius, apothecary, Lazarus patient. With rules and directions, how to prevent sickness, and cure diseases by diet, and such things as are daily sold in the market: as also, for the better enabling of nurses, and such as attend sick people; there being nothing as yet extant (though much desired) of this nature. London: printed for J.B. who desires the reader to take notice, that he is the next week to return this book to the clark, or pay 12d, [ca. 1676]. ESTC No. R231543. Grub Street ID 103571.