Publications of J. 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 J. Allen

  • Doolittle, Thomas. A treatise concerning the Lord's Supper: with three dialogues for the more full information of the weak, in the nature and use of this sacrament. By Tho. Doolittel, M.A. Boston, N.E.: Printed by J. Allen, for Nicholas Buttolph, at his shop in Cornhill, 1713. ESTC No. W10320. Grub Street ID 319435.

Printed for J. Allen

  • The observator prov'd a trimmer: or, Truth and justice vindicated, in the history of the murther of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, and the several popish shams since made use of to amuse the world about it. Being a full answer to certain late pamphlets, intituled, Observators; wherein the evidence of that gentlemans being murthered by papists, is very falsly stated; and the positions and practices of the Church of Rome, too favourably represented. Humbly dedicated to the clergy of England. London: printed for J. Allen, and are to be sold by most booksellers, 1685. ESTC No. R1891. Grub Street ID 76722.