Printers & Booksellers of Early Printed Books
The earliest printed books identified the persons who printed the book in a colophon on the last page of text and sometimes by a "printer's device" representing the printers shop.
Colophon of Tommaso Bozzola of Brescia in Martino Alfonso Vivaldo's Candelabrum aureum eccl. s. Dei (1593) BX1758.V5 C3 1593
Identification of responsibility migrated to the title page, and by the seventeenth century booksellers or other individuals with capital ("publishers") took on responsibility for production. Mention of the printing shop began to disappeared.
Selected List of Booksellers
Follow the links to find books using the bookseller's names below. Click on the "EX" link to see visual examples of each term.
| Alfaya - EX | Allot - EX |
| Ash - EX | Barrett - EX |
| Bassaet - EX | Benson - EX |
| Berthelin - EX | Bishop - EX |
| Blount - EX | Bostock - EX |
| Bourne - EX | Brie - EX |
| Brunet - EX | Buon - EX |
| Butter - EX | Calcedonius - EX |
| Calvert - EX | Comin da Trino - EX |
| Commelinus - EX | Cubero - EX |
| Davis - EX | Dawson - EX |
| D'Ewes - EX | Du Mesnil - EX |
| Du Port - EX | Du Pré - EX |
| Durand - EX | Emmel - EX |
| Ferrari - EX | Featherstone - EX |
| Garrich - EX | Gayet - EX |
| Gelabert - EX | Gomez - EX |
| Gonçalez - EX | Guillemot - EX |
| Harrison - EX | Hering - EX |
| Hongot - EX | Jost - EX |
| Kirton - EX | Külssner - EX |
| L'Angelier - EX | La Noue - EX |
| León - EX | Lownes - EX |
| March - EX | Martín - EX |
| Meighan - EX | Meredith - EX |
| Moseley - EX | Pérez de Montalbán - EX |
| Pi - EX | Roig - EX |
| Roussin - EX | Royston - EX |
| Ruland - EX | Schönwetter - EX |
| Seile - EX | Sparke - EX |
| Stephens - EX | Tini - EX |
| Tomes - EX | Torre - EX |
| Tottel - EX | Toy - EX |
| Walbancke - EX | Whitaker - EX |
| Zenaro - EX | Ziletti - EX |
Selected List of Printers
Follow the links to find books using the printer's names below. Click on the "EX" link to see visual examples of each term.
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| Rovière - EX | Sabbio - EX | Sanchez - EX |
| Sartorius - EX | Saur - EX | Schenck - EX |
| Schirlentz - EX | Schürer - EX | Scoriggio - EX |
| Scotto - EX | Sendra - EX | Sermartelli - EX |
| Serrano de Vargas - EX | Sessa - EX | Sevestre - EX |
| Sheldonian Theatre - EX | Silvius - EX | Singriener - EX |
| Sonnius - EX | Soter - EX | Soubron - EX |
| Stansby - EX | Stationers' Company - EX | Stelsius - EX |
| Stoer - EX | Strassburg - EX | Tambach - EX |
| Tarino - EX | Tavernier - EX | Texidò - EX |
| Tinghi - EX | Torrentino - EX | Torresanus - EX |
| Tournes - EX | Trincavellus - EX | Troy - EX |
| Turner - EX | Ugolino - EX | Ulhart - EX |
| Valgrisi - EX | Varennes - EX | Varesio - EX |
| Varisco - EX | Vascosan - EX | Vercellensis - EX |
| Verdussen - EX | Vergés - EX | Vietor - EX |
| Vignon - EX | Vincent - EX | Vingler - EX |
| Vitali - EX | Walder - EX | Waterloo - EX |
| Wechel - EX | Weissenhorn - EX | Wessel - EX |
| Windet - EX | Wolf - EX | Wolfe - EX |
| Wolsschaten - EX | Wolter - EX | Wyon - EX |
| Zaltieri - EX | Zanetti - EX | Zell - EX |
| Zenero - EX | Zetzner - EX | Zurita - EX |