Publications of Thomas Symmons

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 Thomas Symmons

  • Rofe, George. The revelation of God; and of His glory shining into all the earth. Shewing unto man the glorious state that God made all things in, and what the glorious God is, and of the state where there was no hell ... Also shewing the ground and foundation of all inquiry, and how it entered into man, ... Giving man also to understand, that the seed of the woman is made maifest, which bruises the serpents head; ... . London: printed by Roger Norton Junior, for Thomas Symmons at the Bull and Mouth neer Alders-gate, 1658. ESTC No. R34003. Grub Street ID 116556.
  • Burrough, Edward. A message for instruction, to all the rulers, judges, and magistrates, to whom the law is committed, shewing what just government is, and how far the magistrates power reacheth, and what the sword of justice is to cut down, and what it is to defend. Whereby they may learne and be directed to discern betwixt the guiltless and the guilty; and betwixt a matter of wilfull wrong by evill doers, which they are to punish, and a matter of conscience, by men that fears God, which they are to be a praise unto, and not a terror; and in particular divers causes are discovered; which are proved to be matters of conscience, and not of wilfull wrong; ... With an exposition of some parts of the law; for the edification of such, as desires to judge righteously between man and man, who would discern of different causes; and justify the righteous, and condemn the evill doers: by a friend to righteousness, and a lover of just judgement, who desireth the increase of good government. E.B. London: printed for Thomas Symmons at the Bull and Mouth neer Alders-gate, 1658. ESTC No. R25317. Grub Street ID 109018.