Publications of Samuel Raycroft

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 Samuel Raycroft

  • City of London (England). Court of Common Council.. Lane Mayor. Commune Concil' tent' in Camera Guihald', civitat' London', die Veneris vicesimo quinto die Octobr', anno Domini 1695, annoque regni Domini Willielmi Tertii, Regis Angl', &c. Septimo; coram Thoma Lane Mil', Majore dictae civit', Thoma Stampe Mil', Aldermann'; Salathiel' Lovell Mil', servien' ad legem ac recordator' dictae civit', Richardo Levitt Mil', Willielmo Hedges Mil', ac Thoma Smart Amig', Aldermann'; necnon major' parte communiar' dictae Civitat' in eodem Communi Concil' tunc & ibidem assemblat'. An Act of Common Council for lighting the streets, lanes, courts, alleys, and publick passages of the City of London and liberties thereof. London]: Printed by Samuel Raycroft, printer to the Honourable City of London, 1695. ESTC No. R36872. Grub Street ID 119125.