Publications of Job How

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 Job How

  • Allen, James. Neglect of supporting and maintaining the pure worship of God, by the professing people of God: is a God-provoking and land-wasting sin. And repentance with reformation of it, the only way to their outward felicity: or, The cause of New-Englands scarcity: and right way to its plenty. As it was discovered and applied in a sermon preached at Roxbury on a fast-day: July 26. 1687. By James Allen, teacher to the first gathered church in Boston. Boston: Printed for Job How, and John Allen: and are to be sold at Mr. Samuel Greens by the South Meeting House, 1687. ESTC No. W1279. Grub Street ID 322081.