Publications of M.W., 1663

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 M.W., 1663

  • Rigge, Ambrose. A true prospect for the bishops, priests and deacons. And all other within the jurisdiction of the Church of England, who are professors of the common prayer, through which they may see how far they are short in faith, principle and practice of divers sound truths therein specified. Also the proper right of the Quakers, to divers good things therein vindicated and pleaded for, which no other people on earth can justly challenge. And instead of being persecuted, the Quakers ought to be protected by the laws of King Edward the sixt [sic] Queen Eliz. Charles the 1st. and Charles the Second, which established the Book of Common-Prayer, in equity and right reason, which is the life of all just lawes. VVhereunto is annexed divers of the priests practises, for which they have no proof in the scripture. Published by a lover of truth and righteousness, wherever it appears, known by the name of Ambrose Rigg. London]: Printed for M.W., [1663. ESTC No. R25100. Grub Street ID 108816.