Publications of Henry Cripps

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

On this last point, trade publishers such as Mary Cooper appeared in imprints as having "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.

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 Henry Cripps

  • Goodwin, John. Cata-baptism: or new baptism, waxing old, and ready to vanish away. In two parts. The former containes LVIII. considerations, (with their respective proofs, and consectaries) pregnant for the healing of the common scruples touching the subject of baptism, and manner of baptizing. The latter, contains an answer to a discours against infant-baptism, published not long since by W.A. under the title of, Some baptismall abuses briefly discovered, &c. In both, sundry things, not formerly insisted on, are discovered and discussed. By J.G. a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. London: printed by H Cripps, and L. Lloyd, and are to be sold at their shops neer the castle in Cornhil, and in Popes-head-Alley, 1655. ESTC No. R207377. Grub Street ID 83767.

Printed for Henry Cripps

  • Goodwin, John. Right and might well met. Or, A briefe and unpartiall enquiry into the late and present proceedings of the Army under the command of His Excellency the Lord Fairfax. Wherein the equity and regularnesse of the said proceedings are demonstratively vindicated upon undeniable principles, as well of reason, as religion. Together with satisfactory answers to all materiall objections against them. By John Goodwin. London: printed by Matthew Simmons, for Henery Cripps in Popes-head Alley, 1648. ESTC No. R188135. Grub Street ID 76155.
  • Owen, John. A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons, in Parliament assembled: on January 31. A day of solemne humiliation. With a discourse about toleration, and the duty of the civill magistrate about religion, thereunto annexed. Humbly presented to them, and all peace-loving men of this nation. By John Owen, pastor of the Church of Christ, which is at Coggeshall in Essex. London: printed by Matthew Simmons, for Henry Cripps in Popes head Alley, 1649. ESTC No. R203104. Grub Street ID 80242.
  • VValwins vviles: or The manifestators manifested viz. Lievt. Col. John Lilburn, Mr William Walwin, Mr Richard Overton, and Mr Tho. Prince. Discovering themselves to be Englands new chains and Irelands back friends. Or the hunting of the old fox with his cubs and the pictur of the picturers of the Councel of State. Declaring the subtle and crafty wiles the atheisticall blasphemous, soul-murthering principles, and practises of Mr William Walwin, in plentifull instances, confirming the same with some advertisements to Liev. Col. John Liburn, and Mr Tho. Prince. By a lover of the present, and eternall, interest of man-kinde. April. 23. 1649. London: printed for H[enry] C[ripps] and L[odowick] L[loyd], 1649. ESTC No. R204432. Grub Street ID 81389.
  • Eaton, Samuel. The mystery of God incarnate: or, The VVord made flesh, cleered up: or, a vincication [sic] of certain scriptures (produced to prove the divinity of Jesus Christ) from the corrupt glosses, false interpretations, and sophisticall argumentations of M. John Knowles, who denies the divinity of Christ. Also, certain annotations and observations upon a pamphlet entitled, A confession of faith concerning the holy Trinity, according to the scriptures: together with a copie of a letter sent by him to the committee of Gloucester, concerning his faith touching the doctrine of the Trinity. By Samuel Eaton, teacher of the church of Christ at Duckenfield. Whereunto is annexed the attestation of Philip Nye, John Owen, Joseph Caryl, William Greenhill, Sydr. Simpson, Geo. Griffiths. Tho. Harrison. [London]: Printed for H[enry]. Cripps, and L[odowick]. Lloyd, to be sold by Hezekiah Vsher at Boston in New-England, 1650. ESTC No. R174842. Grub Street ID 67906.
  • Dell, William. Christ's spirit, a Christians strength: or, A plain discovery of the mighty and invincible power, that all believers receive through the gift of the Spirit. First held forth in two sermons, on Act. 1. 8. and after published for the instruction and use of those that are spiritual, anno 1645. By William Dell, Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ at Yelden in the County of Bedford. London: printed for Hen. Cripps and Lod. Lloyd, 1651. ESTC No. R13093. Grub Street ID 61217.
  • Dell, William. Several sermons and discourses of William Dell Minister of the Gospel; sometimes attending both the generals in the army: and now Master of Gonvil and Caius Colledge in Cambridge. Heretofore published at several times, and on several occasions; and now gathered in one volumn, for the benefit of the faithful, and conviction of the world. London: printed [by R. White] for [Hen. Cripps, Lod. Lloyd and] Giles Calvert, at the sign of the Black-Spread-Eagle, at the West-end of Pauls towards Ludgate, 1652 [i.e. 1651]. ESTC No. R208819. Grub Street ID 85040.
  • Eirenomachia. The agreement & distance of brethren: or, a brief survey of the judgment of Mr. J.G. and the Church of God walking with him, touching these important heads of doctrine: 1. Election and reprobation. 2. The death of Christ. 3. The grace of God, in and about conversion. 4. The liberty or power of the will, or of the creature man. 5. The perseverance of the saints. Truly and plainly declaring the particulars, as well agreed upon, as dissented in, between them, and their Christian brethren of opposite judgment to them in some things about the said doctrines. Together, with a short touch of some of the principal grounds and reasons upon which the said pastor and Church cannot consent in judgment with their brethren about those particulars (relating to the said heads of doctrine) wherein the disagreement standeth. London: printed by J. Macock, for H. Cripps, and L. Lloyd, and are to be sold at their shop in Popes-head-Alley, neer Lumbard-street, 1652. ESTC No. R202263. Grub Street ID 79508.
  • Goodwin, John. An exposition of the nineth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans: wherein by the tenor and carriage of the contents of the said chapter, from first to last, is plainly shewed and proved, that the Apostles scope therein, is to assert and maintain his great doctrine of justification by faith, and that here he discourseth nothing at all concerning any personal election or reprobation of men, from eternity. By John Goodvvin, minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. London: printed by John Macock, for Henry Cripps, and Lodowick Lloyd, and are to be sold at their shop in Popes-head Alley, 1653. ESTC No. R10489. Grub Street ID 58857.
  • Goodwin, Thomas. Romanæ historiæ anthologia recognita et aucta. An English exposition of the Roman antiquities, wherein many Roman and English offices are parralleld, and divers obscure phrases explained. For the use of Abingdon School. Newly revised and inlarged by the author. London: printed by J.M. for Henry Cripps of Oxford, A. Dom. MDCLV [1655]. ESTC No. R34446. Grub Street ID 116970.
  • Jessey, Henry. The exceeding riches of grace advanced by the spirit of grace, in an empty nothing creature, viz. Mris. Sarah VVight lately hopeless and restless. Her soul now hopeful and joyful in the Lord, (that has caused light to shine out of darkness) that in and by this earthen vessel, holds forth his own eternal love, and the glorious grace of Jesus Christ, to the chiefest of sinners. Who desired that others might hear and know, what the Lord has done for her soul, (that was so terrified day and night;) and might neither presume nor despair amd murmur against God, as sh had done. Published for the refreshing of poor souls, by an eye and ear witness of a good part thereof, Henry Jessy, a servant of Jesus Christ. London: printed for H. Cripps at the first shop in Popes-head-Alley, next to Lumbard-Street, 1658. ESTC No. R179082. Grub Street ID 70648.
  • A form of church matters, humbly presented for desiding differences about religion. London : printed for H[enry]. C[ripps]., in the year, 1660. ESTC No. R177180. Grub Street ID 69396.
  • Burton, Robert. The anatomy of melancholy. What it is, with all the kinds causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & seuerall cures of it, in three partitions, with their severall sections, members & subsections, philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened & cut vp. By Democritus Junior. With a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse,. The seventh edition, corrected and augmented by the author.. London : printed for H: Cripps and are to be sold at his shop in Popes-head Allie and by E: Wallis at the Horsshoo in the Old Baley, 1660. ESTC No. R27243. Grub Street ID 110430.