Publications of A. Beltesworth

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 A. Beltesworth

  • Covert, Nicholas. The scrivener's guide. ... Being choice and approved forms of precedents of all sorts of business now in use and practice, in a much better Method than any yet Extant; and useful for all gentlemen, especially those that practice the law, viz. Articles of Agreement, Assignments, Acquittances, Bankrupts, Bargains and Sales, Bills, Bonds, Certificates, Conditions, Copartnerships, Copyhold Precedents, Covenants, Defeazances, Deputations, Grants, Jointures, Indentures, Leases, Letters of Attorney, Licences, Memorials, Mortgages, Obligations, Partitions, Petitions, Provisos, Releases, Revocations, Settlements of Estates, Warrants, &c. Wills, By Nicholas Covert, one of the Attornies of the Court of Common Pleas. Revised, corrected, and very much improved, by William Bohun of the Middle Temple, Esq; To this fourth edition is also added very large additions by an eminent hand. London]: In the Savoy: printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edward Sayer; Esq;) for A. Beltesworth in Pater-Noster Row, W. Mears and F. Clay without Temple Bar, T. Woodward and J. Hooke in Fleetstreet, MDCCXXIV. [1724. ESTC No. T115855. Grub Street ID 167542.