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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 order by

  • Woodward, Ezekias. A good souldier, maintaining his militia, and posturing himself, as the servants of the Lord, now and in all ages, have postured the kingdomes; wherein the right-hand of the Lord with his servants directing their way, and blessing their worke; and all his ordinances, fasting, praying, preaching, &c. unto the nation, is declared as mightily, as it was by the resurrection from the dead, whether we respect a nation or a man only. Here is a register of Gods blessings and Satans curses; a record of the (megaleia,) the great and admirable salvations, which God has wrought for the (righteous) nation, and the man there: and of the terrible things hee has done against his adversaries these foure last yeares. Humbly presented to the House of Parliament and Assembly of Divines. With a discovery of the loyall convert, that he is quite turned from his God, his kin and his kingdome: a most disloyall person to all three. [London]: Printed by order [by George Miller], on a day of rebuke and blasphemy: and in the yeare of earnest expectation after an expected end, 1644. ESTC No. R7703. Grub Street ID 127937.