Publications of Thomas Davies

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 Thomas Davies

  • Huise, John. Florilogium phrasicon or, a survey of the Latine tongue, according to the elegancy of it's [sic] proper dialect. Necessary for all young students in the same for their better imitation, and practise thereof, either by their voice, or pen. And into several heads disposed, and collected by John Huise. M.A. And now inlarged with a thousand phrases, wanting in the former edition, by Alexander Ross. London: printed by D. M. for Tho. Davies. at the Sign of the Bible in S. Pauls Church yard, 1659. ESTC No. R5696. Grub Street ID 126117.
  • Le Fvre, Nicaise. A compendious body of chymistry, which will serve as a guide and introduction both for understanding the authors which have treated of the theory of this science in general; and for making the way plain and easie to perform, according to art and method, all operations, which teach the practise of this art, upon animals, vegetables, and minerals, without losing any of the essential vertues contained in them. By N. le Fèbure apothecary in ordinary, and chymical distiller to the King of France, and at present to his Majesty of Great-Britain. London: printed for Tho. Davies and Theo. Sadler, and is to be sold at the sign of the Bible over against the little North-door of St. Pauls-Church, 1662. ESTC No. R232152. Grub Street ID 104010.