Publications of r, Tho.

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 r, Tho.

  • Strype, John. Annals of the Reformation and establishment of religion, and other various occurrences in the Church of England; During the First Twelve Years of Queen Elizabeth's Happy reign. Wherein Account is given of the Restoring of religion from its Corruptions introduced under Queen Mary; Of filling the Sees with Protestant Bishops; Of the Famous Synod assembled in the Year MDLXII. Of the Workings and Endeavours of the Papists; And of the first Appearances of the Dissension from the Church Established. Compiled faithfully out of Papers of State, Authentick Records, Publick Registers, Private Letters, and other Original Manuscripts. Together with an appendix or repository, Containing the most Important of them. By John Strype, M. A. . The second edition, with large additions ... London: printed by, and for, Tho. Edlin, at the Prince's Arms over-against Exeter-Exchange in the Strand, M.DCC.XXV. [1725]. ESTC No. T140655. Grub Street ID 188353.