Publications of Frcncis [sic]

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 Frcncis [sic]

  • Taylor, John. Englands comfort, and Londons ioy: expressed in the royall, triumphant, and magnificent entertainment of our dread soveraigne lord, King Charles, at his blessed and safe returne from Scotland, on Thursday the 25. of Nouemb. 1641. By the Right Honourable Sir Richard Gurney Knight, Lord Major, and the recorder, Sir Thomas Gardner, who were at that present both knighted, who attended his Majesty with the other right worshipfull knights, and aldermen, sheriftes [sic], and companies of this famous city of London: together with the manner and forme how the state was to b observed and performed, by the severall companies on horse-backe and foot; for the conducting of his Majesty, the Queene, the Prince, and all the royall progeny, to the Guild Hall, London, to dinner, and from thence to his Majesties palace at White Hall: also the severall speeches, and other verse presented to his sacred person at that time. Printed at London: for Frcncis [sic] Coules, 1641. ESTC No. R28877. Grub Street ID 111908.