Publications of H. C.

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 multiple roles in combination (which suggests a likelihood that the person is a trade publisher):

  1. "printed and sold by x"; "printed for and sold by x"; or "printed by and for x" and so on.

Printers (owners of the type and printing presses, and possibly owners of the copyright) may be identified by the words printed by, but printed by does not universally designate a person who is a printer by trade. Booksellers may be identified by the words sold by, but sold by encompasses a number of roles. Booksellers or individuals who owned the copyright are generally identified by the words printed for, but nothing should be concluded in this regard without further evidence, especially since "printed for" could signify that the named person was a distributor rather than a copyright holder. Trade publishers, who distributed books and pamphlets but did not own the copyright or employ a printer—and were not printers themselves—might be identified by the words printed and sold by. Furthermore, works from this period often display false imprints, whether to evade copyright restrictions, to conceal the name of the copyright holders, or to dupe unwitting customers. Ultimately, one must proceed with caution in using the following lists: designations in the imprints may not reliably reflect the actual trades or roles of the people named, and the formulas used in imprints do not consistently mean the same thing.

David Foxon discussed the "meaning of the imprint" in his Lyell Lecture delivered at Oxford in March 1976, with particular attention to "publishers" in the eighteenth-century context:

The fullest form of an imprint is one which names three people, or groups of people:
     London: printed by X (the printer), for Y (the bookseller who owned the copyright), and sold by Z.
In the eighteenth century the printer's name is rarely given, at least in works printed in London, and the form is more commonly:
     London: printed for Y, and sold by Z.
Very often in this period, and particularly for pamphlets, it is further abbreviated to:
     London: printed and sold by Z.
It is this last form which is my present concern. Z is usually what the eighteenth century called 'a publisher', or one who distributes books and pamphlets without having any other responsibility—he does not own the copyright or employ a printer, or even know the author.

D. F. McKenzie coined the term "trade publisher" for these publishers in his Sandars Lectures, also in 1976, on the grounds that their principal role was to publish on behalf of other members of the book trade (Treadwell 100).

Michael Treadwell cautions that "In this period the imprint 'London: Printed and sold by A.B.' normally means 'Printed at London, and sold by A.B.' and must not be taken to mean that A.B. is a printer in the absence of other evidence." Further, "The imprint 'published by' occurs only rarely in Wing and is almost always associated with the name of a trade publisher" (104). While there are exceptions to the rule, it is "certain," he explains, "that anyone who made a speciality of distributing works for others will show a far higher proportion than normal of imprints in one of the 'sold by' forms" (116), which appear in the imprint as "sold by," "printed and sold by," or "published by" (104). Treadwell gives Walter Kettilby as an example of "a fairly typical copyright-owning bookseller" (106)—his role is almost always designated by the phrase "printed for" on imprints.

A final caution: publisher is a word that should be used with some deliberation. Samuel Johnson defines it simply as "One who puts out a book into the world," but "published by" rarely appears on the imprint until later in the eighteenth century, and then primarily associated with newspapers and pamphlets. Treadwell observes that John Dunton names only five publishers among the 200 binders and booksellers in his autobiographical Life and Errors (1705) wherein he undertakes "to draw the Character of the most Eminent [Stationers] in the Three Kingdoms" (100). Treadwell also remarks, however, that "in law, anyone who offered a work for sale 'published' it. In this sense every work had one or more 'publishers', and every bookseller, mercury, and hawker was a 'publisher'" (114).

See:

  • Terry Belanger, "From Bookseller to Publisher: Changes in the London Book Trade, 1750–1850," in Book Selling and Book Buying. Aspects of the Nineteenth-Century British and North American Book Trade, ed. Richard G. Landon (Chicago: American Library Association, 1978).
  • Bricker, Andrew Benjamin. "Who was 'A. Moore'? The Attribution of Eighteenth-Century Publications with False and Misleading Imprints," in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 110.2 (2016).
  • John Dunton, The Life and Errors of John Dunton (London: Printed for S. Malthus, 1705).
  • John Feather, "The Commerce of Letters: The Study of the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade," Eighteenth-Century Studies 17 (1984).
  • David Foxon, Pope and the Early Eighteenth-Century Book Trade, ed. James McLaverty (Oxford University Press, 1991).
  • Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language, (printed for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755).
  • D.F. McKenzie, The London Book Trade in the Later Seventeenth Century (Sandars lectures in bibliography, 1977).
  • Michael Treadwell, "London Trade Publishers 1675–1750," The Library sixth series, vol. 4, no. 2 (1982).

Printed by H. C.

  • Claude, Jean. A relation of the famous conference held about religion at Paris, between M. Bossuet, Bishop of Condom (late tutor to the Dauphin) and Monsieur Claude, minister of the Reformed Church at Charenton; at the Countess of Royes house, in the presence of several persons of the first quality, at the request of Mademoiselle de Duras, daughter to the famous Marshal de Turenne, she being then upon changing her religion. Translated from the French copy, as it was lately published by Monsieur Claude. London: printed by H. C. for Thomas Malthus, at the Sun in the Poultrey, 1684. ESTC No. R15735. Grub Street ID 63644.

Printed for H. C.

  • Stinton, George. A sermon preached in the cathedrall church of Worcester vpon Sunday morning, Nouemb. 27. 1636. In the time of pestilence in other places of this land, and now published in the time of the visitation of that citie, with that grevious sicknesse, and by reason of it. By Geo Stinton,. Oxford: Printed by L. Lichfield, for H. C. [i.e. Cripps? or Curteyn?] Printer to the Vniversity, Anno Dom[ini] 1637. ESTC No. S113491. Grub Street ID 133225.

Author

  • C., H.. The country-curate's advice to his parishioners, in four parts. I. Directs us, how to serve God on the Lord's day. II. On the week day. III. How to discharge our duty in our several relations; as husband and wife, parents and children, masters and servants. IV. How to prepare for death. By H.C. London: printed by T.W. for J. Robinson, at the Golden Lyon in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1693. ESTC No. R37664. Grub Street ID 119879.
  • C., H.. Brief directions for our more devout behaviour in time of divine service. With a short rationale on the Common-prayer. By H.C. London: printed by T.W. for J. Robinson, at the Golden Lyon in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1693. ESTC No. R29492. Grub Street ID 112467.
  • C., H.. Set on the great pot. A sermon upon hospitality, preach'd at a late visitation at Tunbridg in Kent, on 2 Kings IV. 38. By H.C. London: printed for the Sons of the Prophets, MDCXCIV [1694]. ESTC No. R28413. Grub Street ID 111486.
  • C., H.. The Christian householder. Or a treatise directing I. The parent how to perfrom his duty to his children. II. Children to their Parents. III. Masters to their servants. IV. Servants to their masters. By Hen. Cornwaleys, curate of Ashley, in Northampton-shire. London: printed for Eben. Tracy, at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge, 1696. ESTC No. R174275. Grub Street ID 67499.
  • C., H.. Brief directions for our more devout behaviour in time of divine service. With a short rationale on the common-prayer. By H.C. Dublin: re-printed at the back of Dick's Coffee-House in Skinner-Row; and are to be sold by Robert Thornton, bookseller in Essex-street, 1700. ESTC No. R171544. Grub Street ID 65737.
  • C., H.. Set on the great pot. A sermon upon hospitality, preach'd at a late visitation at Tunbridge in Kent, on 2 Kings, IV. 38. ... By H. C. London: printed for the sons of the prophets, 1703. ESTC No. T66247. Grub Street ID 290997.
  • C., H.. Sabbati Christiani vindiciæ: or, the strict observation of the Lord's-Day. Recommended, by H. C. author of the Country curates advice to his parishioners. London: printed for the author, 1704. ESTC No. T209182. Grub Street ID 237880.
  • C., H.. The devout votaries. A sermon preach'd at Bramston in Rutland, at the churching of a man and his wife. By Henry Cornwaleys. London: printed for Hen. Green, 1705. ESTC No. T89073. Grub Street ID 309005.
  • C., H.. An abstract of several sermons preach'd upon several occasions, ... By H. Cornwaleys, ... London: printed for the author, 1705. ESTC No. T203446. Grub Street ID 234035.
  • C., H.. The bridal bush: or, a sermon preached to a new-married couple, at Æasen in Norfolk. By H. C. London: printed and sold by H. Hills, 1709. ESTC No. N31929. Grub Street ID 20805.
  • C., H.. Laus Deo: or, how to sing to the glory of God. An abstract of a sermon preach'd at Brenckley in Kent. With several divine hymns collected out of the best members of the Church of England. By H. C. author of The country curate's advice to his parishioners. Printed in this small Volumn for the Benefit of those that delight in Singing. Licensed and enter`d according to Order. London: printed for V. H., 1719. ESTC No. T193038. Grub Street ID 227311.