Publications of Rich. Thrale

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 Rich. Thrale

  • Themylthorpe, Nicholas. The posie of godly prayers, fit for every Christian to use: containing only prayers of repentance, remissions of sins, and thanksgiving; with an excellent exhortation to forsake the world, and a perswasion not to fear death. Made and collected by Nicholas Themylthorpe Esq; one of the Queens Majesties gentlemen sewers. Now newly mended and enlarged by the same author, and the one and fortieth time imprinted.. London: printed for Rich. Thrale at the lower end of Cheapside, near Mercers Chappel, 1679. ESTC No. R234772. Grub Street ID 106042.