Publications of Humfrey Powell

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 Humfrey Powell

  • The Wyll of the deuyll, and last testament. Imprinted at London: By Humfrey Powell, [1548?]. ESTC No. S1893. Grub Street ID 146296.
  • The psalter or psalmes of Dauid after the tra[n]slacion of the great Byble, poynted as it shall be sayed or song in churches. [Imprinted at London: By Hvmfrey Powell, dwellyng a little aboue Holburne conduite, for Edwarde Whitechurche], An. D. 1549. ESTC No. S111766. Grub Street ID 131541.
  • Samuel, William. A vvarnyng for the cittie of London. That the dwellers, therein may repent their evyll lyues for feare of Goddes plages. [Imprinted at London: by me Humfrey Powell, dewellinge [sic] aboue Holburne conduit, and are to be soulde by Hugh Syngleton at the signe of Saint Augustine in Polles Churcharde [sic], [1550?]]. ESTC No. S4878. Grub Street ID 148794.