Publications of T. Purfoot

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 T. Purfoot

  • Greene, Robert. Pandosto. The triumph of time. VVherein is discouered by a pleasant historie, that although by the meanes of sinister fortune truth may be concealed, yet by time in spite of fortune it is most manifestly reuealed. Pleasant for age to auoide drowsie thoughts; profitable for youth to eschew other wanton pastimes; and bringing to both a desired content. By Robert Greene Master of Arts in Cambridge. Imprinted at London: [By T. Purfoot] for George Potter, dwelling at the signe of the Bible, neere vnto the North dore of Paules, 1607. ESTC No. S113899. Grub Street ID 133625.