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:

  • Apollo's feast: or, Wits entertainment. Consisting of pleasant intrigues, delightful stories, ingenious poems, witty repartees, merry bulls, old tales, novels, and prologues and epilogues spoke and writ by Jo. Haynes and Mr. Pinkeman, and others the most diverting comedians. All collected from the most ingenious of the age, and now published by the Author of The pills to purge melancholy. London: Printed for H. Playford: and sold by J. Nutt near Stationers-Hall, 1703. ESTC No. T92170. Grub Street ID 311963.