Publications of Valentine Simmes

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 Valentine Simmes

  • Mascall, Leonard. A booke of the arte and manner how to plant and graffe all sorts of trees, how to sette stones and sovv pipins, to make wild trees to graffe on, as also remedies and medicines. With diuers other new practises, by one of the Abbey of S. Vincent in Fraunce, practised with his owne hands: deuided into vii. chapters, as here after more plainly shall appeare with an addition in the end of this booke, of certaine Dutch practises, set forth and Englished, by Leonard Mascall. Imprinted at London: [By Valentine Simmes], 1596. ESTC No. S112422. Grub Street ID 132184.