Publications of Humfrey Lownes

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 Lownes

  • Hunnis, William. Seuen sobs of a sorrowfull soule for sinne: comprehending those seuen Psalmes of the princelie prophet Dauid, commonlie called p?nitentiall; framed into a forme of familiar praiers, and reduced into meeter by William Hunnis, one of the gentlemen of hir Maiesties honourabl Chappel, and maister to the children of the same. Whereunto are also annexed his handfull of honisuckles; the poore widowes mite; a dialog betweene Christ and a sinner; diuers godlie and pithie ditties, with a Christian confession of and to the Trinitie; newlie printed and augmented. [At London: Printed by Humfry Lownes, dwelling on Bred-street hill, at the signe of the Starre], 1604. ESTC No. S120261. Grub Street ID 139897.
  • Plat, Hugh. Delightes for ladies, to adorne their persons, tables, closets, and distillatories: with. Beauties, banquets, perfumes and waters. reade, practise, and censure. At London: printed by H. L[ownes]., 1605. ESTC No. S94740. Grub Street ID 152904.
  • Suetonius, Gaius, Tranquillus. The historie of twelue Cæsars emperors of Rome. Written in Latine by C. Suetonius Tranquillus: and newly translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor in Phisick. Together with a marginall glosse and other briefe anotations therevpon. Printed at London: [By H. Lownesand G. Snowdon] for Mathew Lownes, 1606. ESTC No. S113501. Grub Street ID 133235.
  • Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste. Bartas his deuine weekes & workes translated & dedicated to the Kings most excellent Maiestie By Iosuah Syluester. [At London: printed by Humfrey Lownes dwelling on Bred-streete hill at the signe of the Starre, 1605 [i.e. 1606]]. ESTC No. S112205. Grub Street ID 131970.
  • The true vvatch, and rule of life. Or A direction for the examination of our spirituall estate, and for the guiding of the whole course of our life, (according to the word of God, whereby we must be iudged at the last day) to helpe to preserue vs from apostasy, or decaying in grace, and to further our daily growth in Christ. At London: Printed by H. Lownes, for Samuel Macham: and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church yard, at the signe of the Bul-head, 1608. ESTC No. S118730. Grub Street ID 138379.
  • Shakespeare, William. Venus and Adonis. Imprinted at London: [By H. Lownes] for William Leake, dwelling at the signe of the Holy Ghost, in Paules Church-yard, 1602 [i.e. 1608?]. ESTC No. S114112. Grub Street ID 133835.
  • The testaments of the tweluelue [sic] patriarches, the sonnes of Iacob: translated out of Greeke into Latine by Robert Grosthead sometime Bishop of Lincolne, and out of his copie into French and Dutch by others: and now Englished. To the credit whereof an auncient Greeke copy written in parchment is kept in the Vniuersitie Library of Cambridge. Printed at London: [By Humphrey Lownes] for the Company of the Stationers, 1610. ESTC No. S114186. Grub Street ID 133909.