Publications of officina Ioannis

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 officina Ioannis

  • Buchler, Johann. Sacrarum profanarumq[ue] phrasium poeticarum thesaurus recens perpolitus & numerosior factus, opera M. Ioannis Buchleri in Wicradt Præfecti. Auctus signatis locis à P. Nicasio Baxio, cui iam demum solius Virgilij nomina Synonyma separatim à D. Buchlero addita sunt. Adhæret insuper reformata poeseos institutio, musarum candidatis cognitu per quam necessaria. Londini: In officina Ioannis Hauiland, sumptibus Ioannis Partridge, M. DC. XXVIII [1628]. ESTC No. S113360. Grub Street ID 133098.

Printed for officina Ioannis

  • Parfeius, Gulielmus. Speculum iuuenum uxores impetuose affectantiu[m] in quo plurimos seminarum uiperinos mores (quibus extremam trahantur in pernitiem) ex omni pen genere eruditorum selectos sole clarius deprehendent. [Londini: Ex officina Ioannis Herfordie, M.D.XLVII [1547]]. ESTC No. S114121. Grub Street ID 133844.