Publications of Christopher Brown

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 Christopher Brown

  • Geographia classica: the geography of the ancients so far describ'd as it is contain'd in the Greek and Latin classicks, in twenty-nine maps of the Old World and its several kingdoms and provinces: wherein the chief places mention'd in Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Eutropius, Cornelius Nepos, Justin, Quintus Curtius, Sallust, Livy, Caesar, Plutarch, Xenophon, Herodotus, and many other ancient authors are describ'd. To which is added, a map of the places mention'd in the Old and New Testaments. A collection long wanted, and now publish'd for the use of schools. The third edition.. London: printed for Christopher Brown, and sold by the following booksellers; Mr. Knapton, Mr. Knaplock, Mr. Wilkin, Mr. Tooke, Mr. Clark, Mr. Betsworth, Mr. Bowyer, Mr. Innis, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Osbourn, Mr. King, and Mr. Nicks, MDCCXXI [1721]. ESTC No. N18303. Grub Street ID 7785.