Publications of John Foster

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 Foster

  • Allen, James. New-Englands choicest blessing and the mercy most to be desired by all that wish well to this people. Cleared in a sermon preached before the Court of Election at Boston on May 28. 1679. By James Allen, teacher to the first gathered church therein. Boston: printed by John Foster, 1679. ESTC No. W13883. Grub Street ID 323247.

Sold by John Foster

  • Mather, Increase. A relation of the troubles which have hapned in New-England, by reason of the Indians there: from the year 1614. to the year 1675. Wherein the frequent conspiracyes of the Indians to cutt off the English, and the wonderfull providence of God, in disappointing their devices is declared. Together with an Historical discourse concerning the prevalency of prayer shewing that New Englands late deliverance from the rage of the heathen is an eminent answer of prayer. By Increase Mather teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. Boston: printed and sold by John Foster, 1677. ESTC No. R30056. Grub Street ID 112961.

Printed for John Foster

  • The murtherer justly condemned, or, an account of George Feast, a butcher of Shoreditch, being found guilty at the sessions-house in the Old Baily, for the barbarous bloody murther of his wife by stabbing her in the belly, in London-Hall market, on the 5th. of May, 1697. Of which wound she immediately dyed, also some account of his penitent behaviour in Newgate. To the tune of, Packingtons Pound. With allowance. London]: Printed for John Foster, at the Grey-Hound, near the Noah's Ark Tavern, over-against Vine-street St. Giles's in the Fields, [1697. ESTC No. R180795. Grub Street ID 71690.