Publications of Abraham Craig

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 for Abraham Craig

  • Brown, John. Two short catechisms, mutually connected; the questions of the former being generally supposed and omitted in the latter. The former contains the most of what is absolutely necessary to be known in order to salvation; and may be taught children before they can read. The latter contains the most of what is necessary to be known in order to admission to the Lord's table; and being a brief explication of the Assembly's Shorter Catechism, frequently in almost the express words thereof, may be learned along with, or immediately after it. By John Brown, Minister of the Gospel at Haddington. Carlisle [Pa.]: Printed for Abraham Craig, student, by George Kline, 1795. ESTC No. W35971. Grub Street ID 346649.