Publications of Nicholas Ling

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 Nicholas Ling

  • [The] affinitie of the faithfull being a very godly and fruitfull sermon, made vpon a parte of the eyght chapter of Sainct Luke / by Henry Smith. At London: Printed for Nicholas Ling and Iohn Busbie, 1591. ESTC No. S1129. Grub Street ID 132644.
  • Zepheria. At London: Printed by the widdowe Orwin, for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Busbie, 1594. ESTC No. S111818. Grub Street ID 131592.
  • Nash, Thomas. Pierce Pennilesse his supplication to the diuell. Written by Tho. Nash, Gent. London: printed [by T[homas] C[reede]] for Nicholas Ling, and are to be sold at his shop, at the northwest doore of S. Paules, 1595. ESTC No. S110086. Grub Street ID 130213.
  • Drayton, Michael. Englands heroicall epistles. By Michaell Drayton. At London: Printed by I[ames] R[oberts] for N. Ling, and are to be sold at his shop at the vvest doore of Poules, 1597. ESTC No. S111950. Grub Street ID 131713.
  • Drayton, Michael. Englands heroicall epistles. Nevvly enlarged. VVith Idea. By Michaell Drayton. At London: Printed by I. R[oberts]. for N. L[ing]. and are to be sold at his shop, at the vvest doore of Poules, 1599. ESTC No. S116520. Grub Street ID 136207.
  • Wright, Leonard. A display of dutie. Deckt with sage sayings, pithie sentences, and proper similies ... By L. Wright. London: Printed by V. S[ims] for Nicholas Lyng, 1602. ESTC No. S113280. Grub Street ID 133020.
  • Shakespeare, William. The tragicall historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. By William Shakespeare. At London: printed by I[ames]. R[oberts]. for N[icholas]. L[ing]. and are to be sold at his shoppe vnder Saint Dunstons Church in Fleetstreet, 1604. ESTC No. S111107. Grub Street ID 131026.
  • Shakespeare, William. The tragicall historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke By William Shakespeare. At London: Printed for I. R[oberts] for N. L[ing] and are to be sold at his shoppe vnder Saint Dunstons Church in Fleetstreet, 1605. ESTC No. S112640. Grub Street ID 132393.
  • Greene, Robert. Ciceronis amor. = Tullies loue. Wherein is discoursed, the prime of Ciceroes youth, setting out in liuely portraitures, how young gentlemen, that ayme at honor, should leuell the end of their affections, holding the loue of country and friends in more esteeme, then those fading blossomes of beautie, that onely feede the curious suruey of the eye. A worke full of pleasure, as following Ciceroes vaine, who was as conceited in his youth, as graue in his age; profitable, as containing precepts worthy so famous an orator. Robert Greene. In artibus Magister. Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit vtile dulci. At London: Printed by I. R[oberts] for Nich[olas] Lyng, 1605. ESTC No. S114867. Grub Street ID 134572.
  • A common-vvealth of good counsaile. Or, Policies chiefe counseller, portraited into two bookes. Shevving vvhat may be in a magistrate in gouerning: a subiect in obeying: and the absolute felicitie of all common-weales. VVherein all sorts of vvell affected readers, may furnish themselues with all kind of philosophicall or morall reading, as being replenished with the chiefe learning of the most excellent philosophers, and principall law-giuers. And by the author intended for all those that be admitted to the administration of well gouernd common-weales. Written in Latin by Laurentius Grimaldus, and consecrated to the honour of the Polonian Empire. Newly translated into Enlglish. At London: Printed by R[ichard] B[radock; prelims. actually by T. Creede] for N. Lyng, 1607. ESTC No. S118466. Grub Street ID 138120.
  • Three sermons made by Master Henry Smith. I. The benefit of contentation. II. The affinitie of the faithfull. III. The lost sheepe is found. At London: imprinted by F[elix] K[ingston] for Nicolas Ling, and are to be sold at his shop in S. Dunstanes Churchyard, 1607. ESTC No. S117516. Grub Street ID 137186.