Publications of Hugh Astley

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 Hugh Astley

  • Norman, Robert. The new attractiue. Containing a short discourse of the magnes or loadstone: and amongst other his vertues, of a new discouered secret and subtill propertie, concerning the declining of the needle, touched therewith vnder the plaine of the horizon. Now first found out by Robert Norman hydrographer. Heerevnto are annexed certaine necessary rules for the arte of nauigation: by the same R.N. [London]: Imprinted at London by E. Allde, for Hew Astley, 1592. ESTC No. S94496. Grub Street ID 152740.
  • Norman, Robert. The new attractiue. Containing a short discourse of the magnes or loadstone: and amongst other his vertues, of a new discouered secret and subtill propertie, concerning the declination of the needle, touched therewith vnder the plaine of the horizon. Now first founde out by Robert Norman hydrographer. Heerevnto are annexed certaine necessary rules for the art of nauigation by the same R.N. Imprinted at London: By E[dward] Allde, for Hugh Astley [dwelling at S. Magnus corner.], 1596. ESTC No. S110229. Grub Street ID 130330.
  • The perfect path-way to saluation: containing sundry prayers, very profitable for the godlie readers. London: Printed [by E. Allde] for Hugh Astley, and are to be solde at his shope, vnder S. Magnes Church, 1603. ESTC No. S112958. Grub Street ID 132703.
  • Antoniszoon, Cornelis. The safegarde of saylers, or great rutter. Contayning the courses, distances, soundings, flouds and ebbes, with the marks for the entring of sundry harboroughs both of England, Fraunce, Spaine, Ireland, Flaunders, and the soundes of Denmarke, with other necessarie rules of common nauigation. Translated out of Dutch into English by Robert Norman hydrographer. And newly corrected and augmented by E.W. Imprinted at London: By E. Allde for H. Astley, and are to bee solde at his shop, at the corner of S. Magnus Church, 1605. ESTC No. S110544. Grub Street ID 130571.