Publications of Hen. Hills

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 Hen. Hills

  • Atterbury, Francis. A sermon preach'd in the Gild-Hall chappel, London, September 28, 1706. Being the day of the election of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor. By Francis Atterbury, D. D. Dean of Carlisle, and Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty. London: printed and sold by Hen. Hills, in Black-Fryars, near the Water-Side, for the Benefit of the Poor, [1706?]. ESTC No. T59809. Grub Street ID 285758.

Sold by Hen. Hills

  • Swift, Jonathan. Predictions for the year 1708. Wherein the month and day of the month are set down, ... Written to prevent the people of England from being further impos'd on by vulgar almanack-makers. By Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq;. London: printed and sold by Hen. Hills, 1708. ESTC No. N12428. Grub Street ID 2429.

Printed for Hen. Hills

  • A commission and instructions to Charles Fleetwood, esq; Lieutenant General of the Army in Ireland, Edmund Ludlow, esq; Lieutenant General of the horse, Miles Corbet, esq; Iohn Iones, esq; impowering them to cause all the lands (therein mentioned to be forfeited to the Commonwealth) to be forthwith surveyed, in order to the satisfying of adventurers for Ireland, and arrears of officers and souldiers, and for the settling and planting of Ireland, with security to the inhabitants, and such as shall plant the same. Wednesday June 29. 1653. At the Councill of State at White-Hall, ordered, that this declaration be forthwith printed and published. John Thurloe Secr. London: printed for Giles Calvert, Thomas Brewster, and by and for Hen. Hills, and are to be sold at the Black-Spread-Eagle at the west end of Pauls, and at the Three Bibles in Pauls Church yard, MDCLIII. [1653]. ESTC No. R209620. Grub Street ID 85852.