Publications of John Hancock

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 Hancock

  • Malbon, Samuel. Christs glorious appearance to judgement. In two choice sermons of that Reverend minister of Christ Mr. Samuel Malbon. London: printed by John Hancock, Sen. and Jun. at the Three Bibles in Popes-Head-Alley in Cornhill, 1673. ESTC No. R10883. Grub Street ID 59220.

Sold by John Hancock

  • Bridge, William. Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons. Viz. 1. Of mans blessedness. 2. Affections rightly placed. 3. How to walk with God in our calling? 4. Of good and bad company. 5. The carnality of professors. 6. What our work is, and how to be done? 7. Soul resignation into the hands of God. 8. The dignity and duty of Gods called ones. By that learned and judicious divine Mr. William Bridge, sometimes Fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and late preacher of the word of God at Yarmouth. Designed by himself for the press, as appears by the marginal notes, except the eighth sermon, which was the last he preached, was taken exactly in short-hand, and published by his son-in-law, after they were perused by Mr. Greenhill. London: printed, and are to be sold by John Hancock Senior and Junior, at the sign of the Three Bibles in Popes head Alley in Cornhill, 1673. ESTC No. R18600. Grub Street ID 74853.

Printed for John Hancock

  • W., E.. Four queries resolved for the satisfaction of all men, who are not willingly ignorant, touching the late arch-bishop I. What his religion was, he so coloured over at his death?, II. What his church was, he so bemoaned at that time?, III. What his confessions was?, IV. And prayer, which his brethren, in iniquity, do approve of at this day : concluded that all those four are so many abominations before the Lord God, and all good men. London: Printed for John Hancock .., 1645. ESTC No. R10954. Grub Street ID 59283.