Publications of ., Booksellers

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 ., Booksellers

  • Farrer, W.. Observations on specific medicines, wherein the most select specifics in the whole Materia medica are described, with the different disorders to which they are adapted; and some peculiar and experienced remedies are particularly recommended for the cure of epilepsy, dropsy, jaundice, lues venerea and scurvy; for hypochondriac and hysteric complaints; and most other diseases incident to the human body; especially those that proceed from some disorder of the uterus; or the diseases peculiar to women. Intended for the relief and benefit of the middling and poorer sort of people; and, in some measure, to prevent the ill consequences that too commonly attend the ignorant and unskilful administration of medicine. By a physician in the country. London: printed and sold by Fletcher and Co., Booksellers, at the Oxford-Theatre, the North-Side of St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1767. ESTC No. N10133. Grub Street ID 145.