Publications of records, 1661

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 records, 1661

  • Cocker, Edward. Multum in parvo. Or The pen's gallantry. A copy-book, containing twenty four sentences in prose, in alphabetical order, and as many in verse, each distick comprehending the twenty four letters: and many examples of alphabets. Written in all the curious hands now practised in England, and our neighbour nations. Unto which is now added the best copies of court and chancery hands, with instructions for every thing belonging to writing. Also the rare principles of this art in a poetical alphabet, published for writing-masters to set their learners. Invented, written an engraven by Edward Cocker, dwelling on the south side of S. Paul's Church, over against Paul's Chain, betwixt the Sugar-loaf and Naked-Boy, where he teaches the art of writing & arithmetick in an extraordinary manner. London]: Are to be sold by William Place at Grayes-Inn Gate in Holborn: and by Thomas Rooks at the Lamb and Ink-Bottle at the east end of S. Paul's Church; where also you may have all sorts of blank bonds, and the best ink for records, [1661. ESTC No. R37682. Grub Street ID 119898.