Publications of i.e. for

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 i.e. for

  • Pond, Edward. Ponde 1601. A new almanacke and prognostication for the yeare of the Natiuitie of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ M.DC.I. being the first after leape yeare. Calculated and rectified for the latitude and meridian of the honorable citie of London, and may very well serue for all England: wherein are contayned diuers necessary and profitable rules for all men to know, more then heretofore hath bene written: the contentes wherof do briefly declare the same in the next two pages following. By Edward Ponde, practitioner in the mathematicks. Imprinted at London: by [i.e. for E. White] the assignes [sic] of Iames Roberts, [1601]. ESTC No. S125598. Grub Street ID 144833.