Publications of R: Austin

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 R: Austin

  • Papillon, David. A practicall abstract of the arts, of fortification and assailing. Containing foure different method's of fortifications, with approued rules, to be set out in the feild, all maner of superficies, intrenchments and approaches, by the demy circle, or with lines and stakes Written for the benifit of such as delight in the practice of these noble arts. By David Papillon gent: I have diligently perused this abstract: and do approue it, well worthie of the publick view. Imprimatur. Io: Booker. London: printed by R: Austin and are to be sould at the south side of the Exchange & in Popes head Alley, 1645. ESTC No. R7889. Grub Street ID 128107.