Publications of J. Blare

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 J. Blare

  • Gibbs, John. Practical discourses: viz. I. An exhortation against the fears of death. II. A brief declaration of the resurrection of the dead: with suitable meditations and prayers, touching life and death. To which is added, A discourse of the four last things, viz. death, which is most certain; judgment, which is most strict; hell, which is most dismal; heaven which is most delightful. With instructions both to young and old, to prepare themselves for their latter end; and some necessary directions to die well, in order to avoid hell, and obtain heaven. By the late Reverend Divine Mr. Tho. Gibbs. Recommended as proper to be given at funerals. London: printed by W. Onley, for J. Blar[e] at the Looking-glass, on London-bridge, 1700. ESTC No. R39571. Grub Street ID 121451.