Publications of Rob. Bostocke

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 Rob. Bostocke

  • Reynolds, Edward. Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulnesse of sinne. The life of Christ. Being the substance of severall sermons preached at Lincolns Inne. By Edward Reynolds, late preacher to that honorable society, sometime Fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford, and no rector of the church of Brainston, in North-hampton-shire. London: imprinted by R[ichard]. B[ishop]. [?] for Rob. Bostocke and George Badger, and are to bee sold at his shop in Saint Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street, M.DC.XLII. [1642]. ESTC No. R9360. Grub Street ID 129452.