Publications of Mr. Swan

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 Mr. Swan

  • Stockdale, Percival. Observations on the writings, and conduct of our present political, and religious reformers: occasioned by a letter of Thursday, the 26th of July, 1792, in the paper of the World, with the signature of Tiberius Gracchus: to which is added, an appendix, on the literary decisions, and character of the critical reviewers. By Percival Stockdale. London: printed for Mr. Swan; and sold at the office of the paper of the World, No. 335, opposite to Somerset-House, Strand, MDCCXCII. [1792]. ESTC No. N10073. Grub Street ID 84.