Publications of J. Orme

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 by J. Orme

  • Settle, Elkanah. The triumphs of London. Performed on Monday October 30. 1693. For the entertainment of the right honourable Sir William Ashurst, Knight, Lord Mayor of the city of London. Containing a true description of the several pageants; with the speeches spoken on each pageant. All set forth at the proper costs and charges of the worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors. Together with the festival songs for His Lordship and the Companies diversion. By E.S: Published by authority. London: printed by J. Orme; and are to be sold by Benjamin Johnson, near St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1693. ESTC No. R232262. Grub Street ID 104092.