Publications of John Bill

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 John Bill

  • Curll, Walter. A sermon preach'd at White-Hall on the 28. of April, 1622. By Walter Curll, D.D. and dean of Litchfield. Publish'd by special command. London: Printed by John Bill, 1622. And reprinted by E. Curll, 1712. ESTC No. T56224. Grub Street ID 282773.

Printed for John Bill

  • Turnor, Edward. The speech of Sr Edw. Turnor, Kt. speaker of the honourable House of Commons, to the Kings most excellent Majesty, and both Houses of Parliament, delivered at Oxford, on Tuesday the one and thirtieth day of October, 1665. at the prorogation of the Parliament. Oxford: printed by Leonard Lichfield, printer to the Vniversity; for John Bill, & Christopher Barker, His Majesties printers, 1665. ESTC No. R21171. Grub Street ID 87485.