Publications of the directions

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 the directions

  • England and Wales. Parliament.. A bill for the better relief, imployment, and settlement of the poor, as the same was reported from the committee to the Honourable House of Commons; in order that (by reason of the great importance and universal concern of the said bill) the same be farther consider'd against the next session of Parliament. London: printed by the directions of Sir Humphry Mackworth, by Fr. Collins in the Old-Baily, for George Strahan, at the Golden-Ball, near the Royal-Exchange in Cornhil; and are to be sold by J. Nutt, near Stationers-Hall, 1704. ESTC No. T81628. Grub Street ID 302365.