Publications of F. Cotes

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 F. Cotes

  • Ainsworth, Henry. The old orthodox foundation of religion left for a patterne to a new reformation / collected long since in Amsterdam by Mr. Henry Ainsvvorth, that judicious and learned man for the benefit of his private company ; and now republished for the profit and information of Presbyterians, Independents, Papists, Anabaptists, Arminians, Antinomians, Ranters, Quakers, Seekers, and all that desire to know Christ Jesus & him crucified by S.W. London: Printed by F. Cotes and are to be sold by Michael Spark .., 1653. ESTC No. R4836. Grub Street ID 125329.