Publications of H. Playford

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 H. Playford

  • The consecration of Marcellus. An ode, in memory of the illustrious Prince William, Duke of Gloucester. London: printed for H. Playford at the Temple-Change, A. Roper at the Black Boy in Fleetstreet; and are to be sold by John Nutt near Stationers-Hall, 1700. ESTC No. R27912. Grub Street ID 111047.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by H. Playford

  • Roscius anglicanus, or An historical review of the stage: After in had been suppres'd by means of the late unhappy civlil war, begun in 1641, till the time of King Charles the IIs. Restoration in May 1660. Giving an account of its rise again; of the time and places the governours of both the companies first erected their theatres. The names of the principal actors and actresses, who perform'd in the chiefest plays in each house. With the names of the most taking plays; and modern poets. For the space of 46 years, and during the reign of Three Kings, and pare of our present sovereign Lady Queen Anne, from 1660, to 1706. London: Printed..., 1708. ESTC No. T98947. Grub Street ID 318140.