Publications of John 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 John Allen:

  • Mather, Cotton. The religion of the cross. A brief essay upon the cross whereof our great Saviour, once crucified for us, will have every Christian to be a sufferer. With some instructions unto the Christian, how to bear the cross appointed for him. Occasioned by what was encountred, in the death of that vertuous gentlewoman, Mrs. Elizabeth Mather. Who expired, 9. d. IX. m. 1713. [Four lines of quotation]. Boston: Printed by John Allen: and are to be sold by Nicholas Boone, at the sign of the Bible in Cornhill, 1714. ESTC No. W19412. Grub Street ID 329065.