Publications of Thomas Browne

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 Thomas Browne

  • The history of Valentine and Orson: two sons of the Emperor of Greece. Newly corrected and amended; with new pictures, lively expressing the History. Dublin: printed for Thomas Brown in High-Street, where Country Merchants and others, may be furnish'd with most Sorts of School-Books and Histories, by Wholesale or Retail, At Reasonable Rates, 1749. ESTC No. T128321. Grub Street ID 177929.
  • R. B. The history of the nine worthies of the world. Three whereof were gentiles. I. Hector, Son of Priamus, King of Troy. II. Alexander the Great, King of Macedon. III. Jvlius Caesar, first Emperor of Rome. Three Jews. IV. Joshua, Captain General of Israel. V. David, King of Israel. VI. Judas Maccabeus, a valiant Commander. Three Christians. Vii. Arthur, King of Britain. Viii. Charles the Great, Emperor of Germany, IX. Godfrey of Boloign, King of Jerusalem. Being an account of their glorious lives, worthy actions, renowned victories and deaths. Illustrated with Poems, and the Pictures of each Worthy. By Robert Burton. Dublin: printed for Thomas Browne. Bookseller, at the Bible, in High-Street, MDCCLIX. [1759]. ESTC No. T110534. Grub Street ID 163047.