Publications of T. Rookes.

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 T. Rookes.

  • Harvey, Gideon. The family physician, and the house apothecary; containing I. Medicines against all such diseases people usually advise with apothecaries to be cured of. II. Instructions, whereby to prepare at your own houses all kinds of necessary medicines that are prepared by apothecaries, or prescribed by physicians. III. The exact prices of all drugs, herbs, seeds, simple and compound medicines, as they are sold at the druggists, or may be sold by the apothecaries. IV. That it's plainly made to appear, that in preparing medicines thus at your own houses, that it's no only a far safer way, but you shall also save nineteen shillings in twenty, comparing it with the extravagant rates of many apothecaries. By Gideon Harvey, M.D. physician in ordinary to His Majesty. London]: Printed for T. R[ookes]. and are to be sold by the booksellers of London, MDCLXXVI. [1676. ESTC No. R39261. Grub Street ID 121167.