Publications of Thomas Butler

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 Thomas Butler

  • The vespers and office for the dead, and its proper Mass, together, with the litanies of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of the saints, in Latin and English. ... Dublin: printed by Thomas Butler, 1791. ESTC No. T207804. Grub Street ID 236889.

Sold by Thomas Butler

  • B., W.. A new trial of the ladies. Hide-Park, May-Day. Or, The yellow books partner. London: printed, and are to be sold by Thomas Butler in Lincolns field, near the Three Tun Tavern, by the New-Market-Place, and by Tho. Brewster at the Three Bibles, near the West-end of Pauls, May 1. 1658. ESTC No. R2262. Grub Street ID 99301.