Publications of J. Kingston

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 J. Kingston

  • Beeard, Richard. A godly psalme of Marye Queene, which brought vs comfort al, through God, whom wee of dewtye prayse, that giues her foes a fal. By Rychard Beeard. Anno domini. 1553. Imprinted at London: In Fleetestrete, at the sygne of the faucon against saint Donstons Church by [J. Kingston for] Wylliam Griffith: and are to be solde at his shoppe a lytle aboue the conduit, [1553]. ESTC No. S112243. Grub Street ID 132008.

Printed for J. Kingston

  • Rich, Barnabe. [Riche his farewell to militarie profession: conteinyng verie pleasaunt discourses fit for a peaceable tyme: gathered together for the onely delight of the courteous gentlewomen, bothe of Englande and Irelande, for whose onely pleasure thei were collected together, and vnt whom thei are directed and dedicated by Barnabe Riche gentleman.]. [Impri]nted at London: by [J. Kingston for] Robart Walley, 1583. ESTC No. S94895. Grub Street ID 153016.