Publications of the King's-Arms

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 the King's-Arms

  • Davisson, John. A defence of the Protestant ministers mission: shewing that 'tis the right of all Christian churches to chuse their own ministers; and that the Popish Pretence of a Regular, Uninterrupted Succession from the Apostle Peter, thro the Church of Rome, is a groundless Fancy, which can never be proved; and therefore no way necessary to render any Ministerial Authority Regular, or Administrations Valid. Being a reply to Mr. Holland's considerations of a sermon, entitled, A vindication of the Protestant ministers mission. By John Davisson. London: printed, and are to be sold by A. Ward, at the King's-Arms in Little-Britain; and R. Ford, at the Angel in the Poultry, MDCC.XXI. [1721]. ESTC No. T105649. Grub Street ID 158914.