Publications of e society

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 e society

  • Price, Richard. Observations on the nature of civil liberty, and the principles of government, from Dr. Price's much esteemed and popular essay, published anno 1776. With the Declaration of principles, and regulations of the Friends of Liberty, United for Promoting Constitutional Information, The only Means by which A Reduction of Taxes, and the Enormous Price of Provisions can be Obtained; Or Unjust and Unnecessary Wars Prevented. London]: Printed by order of the society, and sold by Joyce and Toone, King-Street, Bloomsbury, Eaton Newgate Street, Lee Haymarket,, Ballard Bedford Court, Bedford Street, Covent Garden; Riebau Strand; Burks, Crispin-Street, Spitalfields; Boag, Turnstile, Holborn; Spence Little Turnstile Holborn; Smith, Portsmouth-Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields; R. Phillips, Leicester, 1795?. ESTC No. N12494. Grub Street ID 2493.