Publications of a lover

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 a lover

  • A remonstrance and protestation of all the good Protestants of this kingdom, against deposing their lawful soveraign K. James II. [Edinburgh]: Printed by a lover of the King [i.e. John Reid?]; MDCLXXXIX. [1689]. ESTC No. R234149. Grub Street ID 105509.

Printed for a lover

  • Cant, Andrew. A sermon preached at a general meeting in the Gray-Friar-Church of Edinburgh, upon the 13th day of June 1638, at our Last Reformation. By that Eminent, Faithful, and Zealous Servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. Andrew Cant, Minister of the Gospel at Aberdeen. Edinburgh: reprinted for a lover of the truth, 1720. ESTC No. T101381. Grub Street ID 155263.