Publications of J. Tisdale

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. Tisdale

  • Heywood, John. The play of the wether. A new and a very mery enterlude of al maner wethers made by Iohn Heywood. The players names. Iupiter a god. Mery reporte the vice. The gentylman. The marchaunt. The ranger. The water myller. The wynde myller. The gentylwoman. The launder. A boy, the least that can play. [Imprinted at London: In Paules Churche yearde, at the sygne of the Sunne, by [J. Tisdale for] Anthonie Kytson, [ca. 1560]]. ESTC No. S118772. Grub Street ID 138421.

Printed for J. Tisdale

  • T. H. The fable of Ouid treting of Narcissus, tra[n]slated out of Latin into Englysh mytre, with a moral there vnto, very pleasante to rede. M.D.LX. Imprynted at London: By [J. Tisdale for] Thomas Hackette, and are to be sold at hys shop in Cannynge strete, ouer agaynste the thre Cranes, [1560]. ESTC No. S113867. Grub Street ID 133593.