Publications of R. Ford

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 R. Ford

  • Multum in parvo, or, the jubilee of jubilees. Being a description of the great millenium, or, kingdom of Christ on earth; ... With a description of the new heaven, the new earth, and the new Jerusalem; ... Together, with an humble and serious search or inquiry into the doctrines of election, and reprobatation [sic]; . London: printed and sold by Mess. Bettesworth and Hitch, R. Ford and R. Hett; and T. Warren, in Birmingham, 1732. ESTC No. T93748. Grub Street ID 313397.