Publications of the compilers

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 the compilers

  • Church of England.. A correct [and familiar] exposition on the common-prayer-book of the Church of England. Collected from the works of Bishop Sparrow, Bishop Andrews, Bishop Beveridge, Bishop Pearson, Doctor Comber, Doctor Nichols, Doctor Biss, and other divines. Together with paraphrases on all the epistles and Gospels: collected from the best commentators. The whole compiled by divines of the Church of England. To which is prefix'd a preface, containing some reflections on the deistical, arian, and socinian notions concerning the object of worship; displaying the nature of prayer, and expediency of forms; and vindicating the service of our church from the popular objections made against it. By John Fludger, M.A. lecturer of St. John's Clerkenwell, and Fellow of Pembroke-College, Oxon. London: Printed for the compilers by Thomas Gardner in Bartholomew Close, M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]. ESTC No. T166346. Grub Street ID 204581.