Publications of John Darby the Elder

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 Darby the Elder

  • Mauriceau, François. The accomplisht midwife, treating of the diseases of women with child, and in childbed. As also, the best directions how to help them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. Illustrated with divers fair figures, newly and very correctly engraven in copper. A work much more perfect than any yet extant in English: being very necessary for all teeming-women, as also for all physicians, chirurgeans and midwives that practise this art. Written in French by Francis [sic] Mauriceau. Translated, and enlarged with some marginal-notes, by Hugh Chamberlen, M.D. (and physician in ordinary to his Majesty) dwelling in Prujeans-Court in the Old-Baily. London: printed by John Darby; and are to be sold by Benjamin Billingsley, at the Printing-Press in Cornhil near the Royal-Exchange, 1673. ESTC No. R180476. Grub Street ID 71504.
  • Pittis, Thomas. A sermon preach'd to the Artillery Company, at St. Mary le Bow, Septemb. 11. 1677. And at their earnest desire published. By Thomas Pittis, D.D. one of his Majesties chaplains in ordinary. London: printed by J[ohn]. D[arby]. for John Baker, at the three Pigeons in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1677. ESTC No. R10835. Grub Street ID 59175.
  • Barret, John. The rector of Sutton committed with the Dean of St. Paul's, or, a defence of Dr. Stillingfleet's Irenicum, his discourses of excommunication, idolatry, and other writings; against his late sermon, entituled, The mischief of separation. By the author of the Christian Temper. In a letter to a friend. London: printed by J[ohn]. D[arby]., and are to be sold by Samuel Richards, bookseller in Nottingham, 1680. ESTC No. R172277. Grub Street ID 66213.
  • Graile, John. The true and real violations of property; offered to consideration in some expostulatory queries, concerning the criminal and mischievous nature of those unjust practices, whereby just possessions, rights, or dues, are injuriously invaded, detained, or dimished [sic]. London: printed by J[ohn]. D[arby] for Brabazon Aylmer, at the the [sic] Three Pigeons in Corn-hill over against the Royal Exchange, 1683. ESTC No. R177609. Grub Street ID 69651.
  • A moderate computation of the expences in provisions, spent in the cities of London and Westminster, and the places within the weekly bills of mortality, for a year, month, week, day, hour and minute, founded upon this modest supposition, that there may be but a million of people within the said cities and weekly bills of mortality, observed by a scrutinous enquiry in most of the particulars. By John Seller, Sen. London: printed by J. D[arby]. and are to be sold by Richard Baldwin, at his house near the Oxford Arms in Warwick-Lane, London; and by the author, at the Hermitage in Wapping, MDCXCI. [1691]. ESTC No. R15680. Grub Street ID 63595.
  • Foxcroft, John. The altogether Christian; his duty explained and enforced. In some sermons on Acts 26. v.28, 29. Together with the causes, why there are so few who are altogether Christians. By John Foxcroft, M.A. formerly of Clare-Hall in Cambridg, now Rector of Wifordby in Leicestershire. London: printed by J[ohn]. Darby, for Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lion in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1695. ESTC No. R177318. Grub Street ID 69480.
  • Gentleman in New-England. A poem on the death of His Highness the Duke of Gloucester. Written by a gentleman in New-England. London: printed by J. Darby, and sold by B. Lintot at the Middle-Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, 1701. ESTC No. N11710. Grub Street ID 1715.

Printed for John Darby the Elder

  • A new song, being the Tories imploration for protection against the Whiggs. To an excellent new Scotch tune. London: printed for J[ohn]. D[arby]., in the year 1682. ESTC No. R7788. Grub Street ID 128017.
  • Russell, William. The speech of the late Lord Russel, to the sheriffs: together with the paper deliver'd by him to them, at the place of execution, on July 21. 1683. London: printed for John Darby, by direction of the Lady Russel, 1683. ESTC No. R235400. Grub Street ID 106512.
  • Russell, William. The speech of the late Lord Russel, to the sheriffs: together with the paper delivered by him to them, at the place of execution, on July 21. London: printed for John Darby by direction of the Lady Russel, 1683. ESTC No. R233934. Grub Street ID 105348.

Author

  • Darby, John, the Elder. Tuesday, July 24. 1683. Whereas one Thomas Fox bookseller of Westminster, has published an advertisement, insinuating, as if that speech and paper of my Lord Russell's printed by me, was not true, and doth pretend to publish a more perfect one, together with the speeches of Walcot, Hone and Rouse in five sheets sold for six pence. This is to give notice ... John Darby. London: printed by John Darby, 1683. ESTC No. R236458. Grub Street ID 107238.