Publications of the Company of Stationers

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 Company of Stationers

  • Pepper, Joseph. Katoptron ouranion: or, an almanack for the Year of our Lord God 1703. Being Third after the Bissextile or Leap-Year And from the World's Creation, 5652. Wherein is contained the Conjunctions of the Planets and Fixed Stars with the Moon. The Mutual Aspects of the Planets: Their Heliocentrick and Geocentrick Places once a Month. The Eclipses of the Luminaries. The Increase and Decrease of the Day. The Rising and Setting of the Sun. Also the Rising, Southing and Setting of the Moon. With other pleasant Observations, very requisite for men of all sorts. Calculated according to Art for the Meridian and Latitude of the Ancient and Renowed Borough-Town of Stamford in Lincolnshire, whose Latitude is 52 deg. 40 min. Fitting all the middle Counties of England; and without sensible Error the whole Kingdom. By Joseph Pepper, Teacher of the Mathematicks & Writing in Stamford. London: printed by Mary Roberts, for the Com[p]a[n]y of Stationers, [1703]. ESTC No. T59921. Grub Street ID 285877.