Publications of pis Johannis

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 pis Johannis

  • G., T.. Ars sciendi sive logica. Nova methodo disposita, et novis præceptis aucta. Opera & studio T.G. M.A. V.D.M. Londoni [sic]: typis Johannis Richardson, prostant verò apud Thomæ Parkhurst, ad insigne Bibl. & trium Coronarum in vico vulgo dicto Cheapside, MDCLXXXI. [1681]. ESTC No. R38754. Grub Street ID 120809.

Printed for pis Johannis

  • Stearne, John. Concio habita ad Reverendissimos Archiepiscopos, vere Reverendos Episcopos, et clerum inferioris Domus Convocationis, Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ, in ecclesiâ cathedrali Sancti Patricij Dublin IV. Nonas, Febr. A.C. 1703. A Johanne Stearne, S. T. D. Cancellario Ecclesiae Cathedralis, Sancti Patricij Dublin, Uno E Procuratoribus Cleri Dioeceseos Midensis: Jusu utriusq; Domus Convocationis Edita. Dublin: typis Johannis Brocas, pro Johanne Forster, in vico Dicto Skinner-Row, 1704. ESTC No. T100983. Grub Street ID 154897.