Publications of Francis Hildyard

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 Francis Hildyard

  • Meriton, George. The praise of York-shire ale wherein is enumerated several sorts of drink, with a discription [sic] of the humors of most sorts of drunckards. To which is added, a York-shire dialogue, in its pure natural dialect, as is now commonly spoken in the north parts of York-shire. The third edition. With the addition of some observations, of the dialect and pronuntiation of words in the East Ryding of York-shire. Together with a collection of significant and usefull proverbs. By G.M. gent. York: printed by J. White, for Francis Hildyard at the signe of the Bible in Stone.Gate, 1697. ESTC No. R19511. Grub Street ID 77106.