Publications of M.S. i.e.

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 M.S. i.e.

  • L., T.. Babylon is fallen. Or, A prophesie that had lain hid above two thousand years. Foreshewing, the rising, continuance, and fall of the empire and supremacie of Rome, with all matters of moment that were to come to passe during the reigne of the emperours and popes. The last being the vanishing of the Germane empire, lately fullfilled. The next, the dividing of the Kingdome of France by the sword of Spaine. The third that of Spaine by the sword of other nations. The fourth the destruction of Rome, and desolation of her Church, in the yeare, 1666. The fifth, the descending of the kings of the east, and of the whole world, unto the battell of the great day of God Almighty. London: printed by M.S. [i.e. Mathew Simmons], 1651. ESTC No. R36236. Grub Street ID 118553.