Publications of George Purslowe

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 George Purslowe

  • Mornay, Philippe de. A worke concerning the trunesse of Christian religion: against, atheists, Epicures, Paynims, Iewes, Mahumetists, and other infidels. Written in French, by Philip of Mornay Lord of Plessie and Marly. Begunne to be translated into English, by that honourable and worthy gentleman, Sir Philip Sidney Knight, and at his request finished by Arthur Golding. Since which time, it hath been reuiewed, and is the fourth time published, and purged from sundry faults escaped heretofore, thorow ignorance, carelesnesse, or other corruption. London: printed by George Purslowe, 1617. ESTC No. S112899. Grub Street ID 132643.