Publications of V. Sims

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 V. Sims

  • A compendious and most maruellous historie of the latter times of the Iewes common weale. Beginning where the Bible, or scriptures leaue, and continuing to the vtter subuersion and last destruction of that countrey and people. Written in Hebrue by Joseph Ben Gorion, a noble man of the same countrey, who sawe the most things himselfe, and was authour and doer of a greater part of the same. Translated into English by Peter Morwyn, of Magdalen College in Oxford. And now newly corrected and amended by the said translator. At London: Printed by V. Sims, for Thomas Adams, dwelling in Paules Church-yard, ouer against the great North doore, An. Do. 1596. ESTC No. S93390. Grub Street ID 151903.