Publications of Thomas Purfoot

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 Thomas Purfoot

  • Petowe, Henry. Philochasander and Elanira the faire lady of Britaine. Wherein is discouered the miserable passions of loue in exile, his vnspeakeable ioy receaued againe into fauour, with the deserued guerdon of perfit loue and constancie. By Henry Petowe. [London]: Printed by Thomas Purfoot, 1599. ESTC No. S110433. Grub Street ID 130483.

Printed for Thomas Purfoot

  • A. T, practitioner in physicke.. A rich store-house or treasury for the diseased. Wherein, are many approued medicines for diuers and sundry diseases, which haue been long hidden, and not come to light before this time. Now set foorth for the great benefit and comfort of the poorer sort of people that are not of abilitie to go to the physitions. By A.T. At London: Printed [by Thomas Purfoot 2] for Thomas Purfoot [1], and Raph Blower, Ann. 1596. ESTC No. S118082. Grub Street ID 137745.