Publications of the Deputies

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 the Deputies

  • Articles to be enquired of by the churchwardens and swornemen in the Metropoliticall visitation of the most reuerend father in God, L. Iohn, by the prouidence of almightie God, Archbishop of Yorke, primate of England, and Metropolitane: holden in the yeere of our Lord God 1590, and in the two and thirtith yeere of the reigne of our most gratious souereigne Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God, Queene of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. Imprinted at London: By [the Deputies of C. Barker for] George Bishop, Anno 1590. ESTC No. S120509. Grub Street ID 140138.