Publications of John Allen

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 John Allen

  • Doolittle, Thomas. A prospect of eternity. Wherein is clearly proved, I. That there is an eternity into which all men must enter, when they go out of time. II. That we should eye eternity, and look at eternal things. III. That this looking ought to have an influence upon us in all that we do. By Tho. Doolittle. [Three lines from Matthew]. Boston, N.E.: Printed by John Allen, for Nicholas Buttoplh [sic], at the corner shop at the head of King-Street, 1709. ESTC No. W10318. Grub Street ID 319432.

Sold by John Allen

  • Allen, Thomas. A chain of Scripture chronology; from the Creation of the world to the death of Jesus Christ. In VII. periods. Viz. from the Creation to the Flood. Flood to the promise. Promise to the law. Law to the Temple. Temple to the captivity in Babylon. Captivity to the return. Return to the death of Christ. To which is added a chronological table for 600 years after the death of Jesus Christ. By Tho. Allen. London: printed, and are to be sold by John Allen, that formerly lived at the Sun-rising in Little Brittain, and now lives at the White Horse in Wentworth street near White Chappel, 1668. ESTC No. R213943. Grub Street ID 89283.

Printed for John Allen

  • Malbon, Samuel. Death and life, or Sins life, the sinners death; sins death, the saints life. Being the sum of eight sermons on Romans. 8.13. By Samuel Malbon, preacher of the word of life in Amsterdam. London: printed for John Allen, living in Wentworth-street, near Bell-Lane, 1669. ESTC No. R10001. Grub Street ID 58401.