Publications of John Dawson Senior

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 John Dawson Senior

  • Preston, John. The nevv covenant, or The saints portion. A treatise vnfolding the all-sufficiencie of God, mans vprightnes, and the covenant of grace. delivered in fourteene sermons vpon Gen. 17. 1,2. Wherevnto are adioyned foure sermons vpon Eccles. 9. 1.2.11.12. By the late faithfull and worthie minister of Iesus Christ, Iohn Preston. Dr. in Divinitie, chaplaine in ordinary to his Maiestie, master of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne. London: printed by J[ohn] D[awson], George Purslowe, and William Jones] for Nicolas Bourne, and are to be sold at the south entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1629. ESTC No. S114280. Grub Street ID 133998.
  • Speed, John. England Wales Scotland and Ireland described and abridged with ye historic relation of things worthy memory from a farr larger voulume done by Iohn Speed. [London: Printed by John Dawson] and are to bee sould by Georg Humble, at ye Whit-horse in popeshead Alley, Anno cum priuilegio 1627 [i.e. 1632?]. ESTC No. S117733. Grub Street ID 137400.