Publications of Iohn Tap:

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 Iohn Tap:

  • Wright, Edward. The description and vse of the sphære deuided into three principal partes: whereof the first intreateth especially of the circles of the vppermost moueable sphære, and of the manifould vses of euery one of them seuerally: the second sheweth the plentifull vse of the vppermost sphære, and of the circles therof ioyntly: the third conteyneth the description of the orbes whereof the sphæres of the sunne and moone haue beene supposed to be made, with their motions and vses. By Edward Wright. The contents of each part are more particularly set downe in the table. London: Printed [by E. Allde] for Iohn Tap: dwelling at S. Magnus corner, 1613. ESTC No. S120188. Grub Street ID 139825.