Publications of a wager

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 a wager

  • Penkethman, John. The purchasers pinnace, or, the bargainees brigantine. Bearing each boarder to terra frugi, or thrifts territories. Substantially shadowed in a new inuented arithmeticall table. Plainely ... declaring the present worth of any rent, lease, or annuitie in possession or reuersion. Most vsefull aswell for the seller as the buyer, that neither of them may be ouer-reacht. Also, Penkethman his president, or, the new art of accompt: deciphered in the money-masters map. Which conteineth a two-fold index of interest money, at 8.P. and 10.P. per cent. ... Neuer to be altered vpon any future impression, ... Whereunto is annexed 1 A table shewing the remedies or allowances vpon all sorts of light or baser golden coynes; ... 2 A plaine direction for the easie computing of interest at 7.li. 10.s. 7.li. 6.li. 13.s. 4.d. and 6.li. per cent. ... Besides the authors admonition, conteining a caueat for the auoyding of sundrie erroneous tables extant, and diners [sic] needfull instructions touching purchas. At London: printed by Iohn Haviland, and are to be sold at the authors shop against the Rolles in Chancerie Lane, who for a wager will warrant and mainteine the same to be true and perfect thorowout. Let others, his apes or vsurpers of his labours, doe the like by theirs, if they dare, [1629]. ESTC No. S125510. Grub Street ID 144747.