Publications of Beniamin Fisher:

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 for Beniamin Fisher:

  • Powell, Thomas. The attourneys academy: or, The manner and forme of proceeding practically, vpon any suite, plaint, or action whatsoeuer, in any court of record whatsoeuer, within this kingdome: especially, in the great courts at Westminster, to whose motion all other courts of law or equitie; as well those of the two prouinciall counsailes, those of Guild-Hall London; as those of like cities and townes corporate, and all other of record are diurnally moued: with the moderne and most vsuall fees of the officers and ministers of such courts. Publisht by his Maiesties speciall priuiledge, and intended to the publique benefit of all his subiects. Tho: Powell Londino-Cambrensis. London: printed [by George Purslowe] for Beniamin Fisher: and are to be sold at his shop in Pater-noster Row, at the signe of the Talbot, 1623. ESTC No. S115003. Grub Street ID 134704.