Publications of Iohn Porter

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 Iohn Porter

  • Perkins, William. A treatise tending vnto a declaration, whether a man bee in the estate of damnation, or in the estate of grace: and if he be in the first, how he may in time come out of it: if in the second, how he may discerne it, and perseuer in the same to the ende. Newly corrected and augmented by William Perkins, fellowe of Christs Colledge in Cambridge. The poynts that are handled are set downe in the page following. Printed at London: by Thomas Orwin, for Iohn Porter and Thomas Gubbin, 1591. ESTC No. S113663. Grub Street ID 133390.