Publications of l'auteur &

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 l'auteur &

  • Fuller, William. Le batard decouvert Ou pleine & entiere demonstration que le pr'etendu Prince de Galles, 'etoit fils de Mademoiselle Marie Grey, prouv'ee d'une mani'ere incontestable, par des lettres en original de la derni'ere reine et d'autres, & par les depositions de plusieurs personnes de merite & d'honneur, qui n'ont jamais 'et'e auparavant publi'ees; & une relation particuli'ere de l'assasinat de Mademoiselle Marie Grey `a Paris. Recommand'ee humblement `a la consid'eration des deux chambers du Parliament. Londres: Imprim'e par l'auteur & vendu par A. Baldwin, aux Armes d'Oxford dans Warwicklane, 1702. ESTC No. T149445. Grub Street ID 195450.

Printed for l'auteur &

  • Thou, Jacques Auguste de. La vie de M. de Thou, extraite de ses propres memoires jusqu'en 1601, & continuée jusqu'à sa mort en 1617; avec des éclaircissemens nécessaires pour l'intelligence de sa grande histoire. Par D. Durand,. Londres: pour l'auteur & se trouve chez Jean Nourse, 1732. ESTC No. T200853. Grub Street ID 232383.