Publications of Roycroft and

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 Roycroft and

  • Dalton, Michael. The countrey justice: containing the practice of the justices of the peace out of their sessions. Gathered for the better help of such justices of peace, as have not been much conversant in the study of the laws of this realm. By Michael Dalton of Lincolns-Inn, Esq; and one of the Masters in Chancery. To which is now added, The duty and power of justices of peace in their sessions; an abridgment (under proper titles) of all statutes, relating thereunto. A large table of the principal matters herein contained. With two other tables, one of the chapters in this book; and the other of such acts of Parliament, as concern the office of a justice of peace. London: printed by H. Sawbridge, S. Roycroft, and W. Rawlins assigns of Richard Atkyns, and Edward Atkyns, Esquires. And are to be sold by H. Twyford, F. Tyton, J. Bellinger, T. Basset, J. Wright, R. Chiswell, R. Pawlet, S. Heyrick, C. Wilkinson, T. Dring, C. Harper, J. Leigh, J. Amery, J. Place, J. Poole, R. Tonson, J. Tonson, and J. Harrison, 1682. ESTC No. R27851. Grub Street ID 110987.