Publications of R.A., 1651.

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 R.A., 1651.

  • Wither, George. The British appeals, with Gods mercifull replies on behalf of the Commonwealth of England contained in a brief commemorative poem, composed for a memoriall of some of those many signall mercies lately vouchsafed to this republike, especially for those deliverances upon the appeals of the Parliaments and royall forces at Naseby : of the English and Scottish armies neer Dunbar in Scotland, and for the late surrender of Eden-burgh Castle, &c. / humbly offered the 30. of January 1650 as his mite of thankfulnesse toward the publike thanksgiving lately enjoyned by an act of Parliament to be celebrated that day by Geo. Wither, Esquire. London: Printed by R.A., 1651. ESTC No. R35266. Grub Street ID 117688.