Publications of B.H. i.e.

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.H. i.e.

  • Sault, Richard. The second Spira: being a fearful example of an atheist who had apostatized from the Christian religion, and died in despair at Westminster, December the 8th. 1692. With an account of his sickness, convictions, discourses with friends and ministers: and of his dreadful expressions & blasphemies when he left the vvorld. As also a letter from an atheist of his acquaintance, with his answer to it. Publish'd as an example to others, and recommended to all young persons to settle them in their religion. By J.S. Minister of the Church of England a frequent visitor of him during his whole sickness. Re-printed at Boston, by B.H. [i.e., Benjamin Harris] for John Usher. 1693. ESTC No. W24927. Grub Street ID 334887.