Publications of J. Best

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 J. Best

  • Swinnock, George. The Christian-mans calling: or, A treatise of making religion ones business: wherein the Christian is directed how to perform it; in his dealings with all men, in the choice of his companions, in evil company, in good company, in solitude, on a week-day, from morning to night, in visiting the sick, on a dying bed. As also, some means directing, and motives perswading thereunto. The third and last part. By George Swinnock, M.A. late preacher of the Gospel at Great-Kimbel in the County of Bucks. London: printed by J. Best. for Tho. Parkhurst at the three Crowns, at the lower end of Cheapside, and D. Newman at the Kings-Arms in the Poultry, neer Grocers-Ally, 1665. ESTC No. R7231. Grub Street ID 127511.