Publications of ld by

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 ld by

  • Moonraker.. Brother Tom to Brother Peter, or Peter paid in his own pence: with the articles of partnership between the devil and Peter Pindar, Esq. An historical epistle. By a moonraker. London: sold by J. Parsons, No 21, Paternoster-Row, M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]. ESTC No. N15740. Grub Street ID 5438.

Printed for ld by

  • Rymer, Thomas. Of the power of Parliaments. With political observations relating thereunto. By Thomas Rymer, Esquire. Late Historiographer-Royal. Reprinted on occasion of Capt. Steele's being expelled the House of Commons. London: sold by J. Roberts, near the Oxford Arms in Warwick lane, 1714. ESTC No. N10890. Grub Street ID 876.