Publications of M. Fabian

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 M. Fabian

  • Gosnold, John. A discourse concerning laying on of hands; shewing 1. The several ends of laying on of hands in the New Testament. ... 4. That the laying on of hands, ... was never instituted, commanded, nor practised at all by Jesus Christ, ... By John Gosnold. The second edition.. London: printed and sold by M. Fabian, 1701. ESTC No. N55097. Grub Street ID 38646.

Sold by M. Fabian

  • Poor Robin.. Poor Robin's prophecy, for the year 1701. Found several years after his death, hid under an old close-stool-pan. And now publish'd by his executors, to make some people merry, and the rest mad. Containing, comical predictions for every month in the year, carefully calculated, to make both sexes shake their sides till they break their twatling-strings. London: Printed, and are to be sold by M. Fabian at Mercers-Chappel, in Cheapside, 1671 [i.e. 1700?]. ESTC No. R229898. Grub Street ID 102294.

Printed for M. Fabian

  • Navigation spiritualiz'd: or, A new compass for seamen consisting of XXXII points of pleasant observations, profitable applications, and serious reflections: all concluded with so many spiritual poems. Whereunto is now added, I. A sober consideration of the sin of drunkenness. II. The harlots face in the Scripture-glass. III. The art of preserving the fruit of the lips. IV. The resurrection of buried mercies and promises. V. The sea-mans catechism. Being an essay toward their much desir'd reformation from the horrible and destable [sic] sins of drunkenness, swearing, uncleanness, forgetfulness of mercies, violation of promises, and atheistical contempt of death. Fit to be seriously recommmended to their profane relations, whether sea-men or others, by all such as unfeignedly desire their eternal welfare. By John Flavel, minister of the Gospel. The fourth edition.. London: printed for M. Fabian in Mercers Chappel at the lower end of Cheapside, 1698. ESTC No. R216243. Grub Street ID 91169.