Publications of William Redmayne

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 William Redmayne

  • Boughen, Edward. A short exposition of the catechism of the Church of England; with the church-catechism it self, and order of confirmation in English and Latin. The Latin revised and much amended. By Edward Boughen, D.D. Fitted for the use of schools. London: printed by W[illiam]. R[edmayne]. for H[enry]. Mortlock at the sign of the Ph?nix, in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1700. ESTC No. R173019. Grub Street ID 66730.
  • Bradford, Samuel. The description and the benefits of a regular education. A sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the anniversary meeting of the gentlemen educated at St. Paul's School, January 25th. 1699/1700. Published at the requests of the stewards. By Samuel Bradford, Rector of S. Mary le Bow, and chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty. London: printed by William Redmayne, and to be sold by John Nutt near Stationers hall, 1700. ESTC No. R25288. Grub Street ID 108991.
  • Berault, Peter. The narrow way which leads to heaven; and the broad way which leads to hell. In two parts. By P. Berault. Late Chaplain of her Majesty's ships the Dunkirk and Scarborough, ... London: printed by William Redmayne for the author, 1703. ESTC No. N47430. Grub Street ID 32125.
  • Claude, Jean. A short account of the complaints, and cruel persecutions of the Protestants in the kingdom of France. London: printed by W. Redmayne, 1707. ESTC No. N22410. Grub Street ID 11768.
  • Burnet, Gilbert. The royal martyr and the dutiful subject, in two sermons. The royal martyr lamented, in a sermon preached at the Savoy, on King Charles the Martyr's day, 1674/5. By Gilbert Burnet, D. D. Now Lord Bishop of Salisbury. London: reprinted by W. Redmayne for J. Meredith and are to be sold by J. Morphew near Stationer's-Hall, 1710. ESTC No. N13156. Grub Street ID 3090.

Sold by William Redmayne

  • The christian's pattern. Or, A divine treatise of the imitation of Christ. Written originally in Latin, by Thomas of Kempis, above two hundred years since. Newly translated. London: printed and sold by William Redmayne, and Samuel Keble at the Turk's Head in Fleetstreet, 1710. ESTC No. T232395. Grub Street ID 257508.
  • An English introduction to the Latin tongue, for the use of the lower forms in Westminster-School. London: printed and sold by W. Redmayne, H. and G. Mortlock, and B. Tooke, 1710. ESTC No. N30207. Grub Street ID 19178.
  • A modest survey of that celebrated tragedy The distrest mother, So often and so highly Applauded by the Ingenious Spectator. Enter'd according to Order. London: printed and sold by William Redmayne in Jewen-Street; and John Morphew near Stationers-Hall, 1712. ESTC No. T57652. Grub Street ID 283871.
  • Euclid. Euclide's Elements; the whole fifteen books compendiously demonstrated. With Archimedes Theorems of the sphere and cylinder, investigated by the method of indivisibles. By Isaac Barrow, D. D. Late Master of Trinity College in Cambridge. To which is added in this edition, Euclide's data with Marinus's preface. And a brief treatise of regular solids. London: printed and sold by W. Redmayne in Jewen-Street, R. Mount on Tower-Hill, and J. and B. Sprint in Little-Britain, 1714. ESTC No. N9463. Grub Street ID 54333.

Printed for William Redmayne

  • Foxe, John. A brief historical relation of the most material passages and persecutions of the Church of Christ, from the death of our Saviour, to the time of William the Conqueror. Collected out of the Acts and monuments of the church, written by Mr. Fox; and compiled in the three first books of the said Book of Martyrs, written by the same author. Viz. The first book of the Acts and monuments, containing the three hundred years next after Christ, with the ten first persecutions of the primitive church. The second book, containing the next three hundred years following, wit such things as especially followed and hapned in England, from the time of King Lucius to Gregorius, and to the time of King Egbert. The third book, containing the next three hundred years, from the raign of King Egbert, unto the time of Willliam the Conqueror. Collected by Jacob Bauthumley. London: Printed for William Redmayne at the Crown upon Addle Hill, 1676. ESTC No. R39554. Grub Street ID 121435.
  • Danvers, Henry. Solomon's Proverbs English and Latin, alphabetically collected for help of memory. In English by H.D. and since made Latin by S. Perkins late school-[...] of Christ-Church-Hospital. Fitted for the use of schools. London: printed for William Redmayne, and are to be sold by Hen. Mortlock at the Ph?nix in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1681. ESTC No. R175390. Grub Street ID 68300.
  • Solomon's proverbs English and Latin, alphabetically collected for help of memory. In English by H.D. And since made Latin by S. Perkins, late school-master of Christ-Church-Hospital. Fitted for the use of schools. London: printed for Will. Redmayne, and are to be sold by Hen. Mortlock, at the Ph?nix in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1684. ESTC No. R223602. Grub Street ID 97395.

Author

  • Redmayne, William. Excellentissimo illustrissimoq; domino dno. marchioni de Trivier, primo Siciliæ regis apud Anglos legato, cum invictissimi illius principis ad siculorum solium accessionem. Magnæ Britanniæ reginæ significasset, gratulatorium carmen. Londini: typis Gulielmi Redmayne, authori, 1714. ESTC No. T198145. Grub Street ID 230943.