Publications of Thomas. Childe

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 by Thomas. Childe

  • Prynne, William. A gospel plea (interwoven with a rational and legal) for the lawfulness & continuance of the antient setled maintenance and tenths of the ministers of the Gospel: in two parts. Proving that there is a just, competent, comfortable maintenance due to all lawfull painfull preachers & ministers of the Gospel, by divine right, institution, & express texts, precepts of the Gospel: that glebes & tithes are such a maintenance, & due to ministers by divine right, law, gospel: that if subtracted or detained, they may lawfully be inforced by coercive laws and penalties: that tithes are no real burder nor grievance to the people; ... That the present opposition against tithes, proceeds not from any real grounds of conscience, but base covetousnesse, ... with a satisfactory answer to all cavils and material objections to the contrary. By William Prynne of Swainswick, Esquire, a Bencher of Lincolns Inne. London: printed by T[homas]. Childe, and L[eonard]. Parry, for Edward Thomas, and are to be sold at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain, 1660. ESTC No. R33924. Grub Street ID 116487.