Publications of Valintine Simmes

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 Valintine Simmes

  • Greene, Robert. Menaphon: Camillaes alarum to slumbring Eupheus [sic] in his melancholy cell at Silexedra. Wherein are desciphered, the variable effects of fortune, the wonders of loue, the triumphs of inconstant time. Displaying in sundry conceited passions (figured in a continuate hystorie) the trophees that vertue carrieth triumphant, maugre the wrath of enuie, or the resolution of fortune. A worke worthie the yongest eares for pleasure, or the grauest censures for principles. Robertus Greene in artibus magister. London: printed by Valintine Simmes for Nicholas Ling, 1599. ESTC No. S92746. Grub Street ID 151423.