Publications of Mr. Standfast

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 Mr. Standfast

  • Standfast, Richard. A little handful of cordial comforts: scattered throughout several answers to sixteen questions and objections following. Intended chiefly for the Good of those that walk mournfully before God; And are worthy to be gathered up, and regarded, by all such as wish well to their own Peace. By Richard Standfast, M. A. Rector of Christ-Church in Bristol; and Chaplain in Ordinary to his most sacred Majesty King Charles II. Bristol: re-printed for Mr. Standfast Smith, Apotheoary; Great Grandson of the Author, MDCCLXIV. [1764]. ESTC No. T100976. Grub Street ID 154890.