Publications of Messieurs Dodsley

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 Messieurs Dodsley

  • Ode on the glorious victory obtained by the allied army in Germany, under the command of His serene Highness Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, over the French, under Marshal Contades; at Thornhausen, near Minden, on the first day of August, 1759. London: printed for Messieurs Dodsley in Pall-Mall; R. Baldwin in Pater-Noster Row; and A. Morley in the Strand, MDCCLIX. [1759]. ESTC No. N20541. Grub Street ID 9942.
  • Wilkinson, John. Tutamen nauticum: or, the seaman's preservation from shipwreck, diseases, and other calamities incident to mariners. By John Wilkinson, M.D. The second edition, with large additions.. London: printed for Messrs Dodsley, Pall-Mall; Lownds, Fleet-Street; Bristow, St. Paul's Church-Yard; Willock, Cornhill; Mount and Page, Tower-Hill, MDCCLXIV. [1764]. ESTC No. T103103. Grub Street ID 156763.
  • Burgh, James. Crito, or, essays on various subjects. . London: printed for Messrs. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; Becket and de Hondt, in the Strand; White, in Fleet-Street; Payne, in Paternoster-Row; and Cooke, near the Royal-Exchange, MDCCLXVI. [1766]-67. ESTC No. T109272. Grub Street ID 162080.
  • Whitaker, John. The history of Manchester. In four books. By John Whitaker B.D. F.S.A. and fellow of C.C.C. Oxford. London]: Sold by Mess. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, White and Lowndes in Fleet-street, Payne at the Mews-Gate, Cadell in the Strand, Davis in Holbourn, Baker and Leigh in York-street Convent-Garden, and Brotherton and Sewell on Cornhill; by Parker at Oxford, and the Merrils at Cambridge; and by Newton, Clarke, and Harrop at Manchester, MDCCLXXI. [1771. ESTC No. T145509. Grub Street ID 192247.