Publications of C.L. Langley

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 C.L. Langley

  • The behaviour, confession, and execution of the twelve prisoners that suffer'd on Wednesday the 22 of Jan. 1678/9. viz. Robert Freeman, drawn and hang'd neer Little-Britain, for murdering his late master there. At Tyburn, George Brown, John Butler, Richard Mills, Christo. Bruncker, George Kenian, for a burglary and felony in Hatton-Garden, taking away 380 ounces of plate, besides rings and money, under pretence of searching for Papists. William Brain, for stealing an horse, having been burnt in the hand formerly. Tim. Smith. and Margaret Wells, for a burglary and felony in St. Gileses. William Atkinson and William Tiney, for a burglary and felony in White-Chappel. Francis Jones, ---- for a felony and burglary. Giving a true account of their deportment in prison after sentence, and last words, as far as material, at execution: attested by Mr. Ordinary. London]: for C.L. [Langley Curtis?], 1678/9. ESTC No. R234484. Grub Street ID 105828.