Publications of convenience are

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 convenience are

  • A geographical description of the four parts of the world. Taken from the notes & workes of the famous Monsieur Sanson, geographer to the French King, and other eminent travellers and authors. To which are added the commodities, coyns, weights, and measures of the chief places of traffick in the world; compared with those of England, (or London) as to the trade thereof. Also, A treatise of travel, and another of traffick, wherein the matter of trade is briefly handled: the whole illustrated with variety of useful and delightful mapps and figures. By Richard Blome Gent. A work beneficial and acceptable to all men, especially to those that intend to spend some part of their time in other countreys, or desire to be informed of them here at home. Also very necessary for merchants, factors, and mariners: and which hitherto hath been undertaken by none. London: printed by T.N. for R. Blome, dwelling in the Savoy near the Kings Wardrobe, and for convenience are also sold by Nath. Brooks at the Angel in Cornhil, Edw. Brewster at the Crane in St Pauls Church-yard, and Tho. Basset at the George in Fleetstreet, near Cliffords-Inn, 1670. ESTC No. R7171. Grub Street ID 127452.