Publications of Benjamin Fisher

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 Benjamin Fisher

  • Camden, William. The historie of the life and reigne of the most renowmed [sic] and victorious Princesse Elizabeth, late Queene of England contayning the most important and remarkeable passages of state, during her happy, long and prosperous raigne composed by way of annals, by the most learned Mr. William Camden ; and faithfully translated into English. London: Printed for Benjamin Fisher and are to be sold at his shop in Aldersgate streete, at the signe of the Talbot, MDCXXX [1630]. ESTC No. S4171. Grub Street ID 148258.