Publications of Benj. Crayle

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 Benj. Crayle

  • Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. The delightful history of Don Quixot the most renowned Baron of Mancha. Containing his noble atchievements, and surprizing adventures, his daring enterprises, and valiant engagements for the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso, and the various and wonderful occurences that attended his love and arms. Also the comical humours of his facetious squire Sancho Pancha, and all other matters that conduce to the illustration of that celebrated history, no less pleasant than gravely moral. Licensed and entred according to order. London: printed for Benj. Crayle at the Peacock and Bible at the West end of St. Pauls, 1689. ESTC No. R32604. Grub Street ID 115309.