Publications of B. Green.

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 B. Green.

  • Mather, Cotton. A flying roll, brought forth, to enter into the house and hand of the thief. The crime & the doom of the thief declared; the various wayes of his theft detected and exposed; and a repentance demanded from the malefactor. In a sermon preached at Boston, p.m. Lords-Day. 11d. 11m. 1712. By Cotton Mather, D.D. [Two lines from Juvenal]. Boston in New-England: Printed by B. Green. Sold by Timothy Green, at his shop in Middle Street, 1713. ESTC No. W12234. Grub Street ID 321491.