Publications of R Griffiths

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 R Griffiths

  • Slade, Alexander. The free mason examin'd: or, the world brought out of darkness into light. Being, an authentick account of all the secrets of the antient Society of Free Masons, which have been handed down by oral tradition only, from the Institution, to the present Time. In Which Is particularly described, the Whole Ceremony used at making Masons, as it has been hitherto practised in all the Lodges round the Globe; by which any Person, who was never made, may introduce himself into a Lodge. With Notes, Explanatory, Historical, and Critical. To which are added, The Author's Reasons for the Publication hereof, and some Remarks on the Conduct of the Author of a Pamphlet, call'd, Masonry Dissected. With a new and correct list of all the regular lodges under the English Constitution, according to their late Removals, and Additions. By Alexander Slade, Late Master of Three Regular Constituted Lodges, In the City of Norwich. The third edition, with additional notes.. London: printed for R Griffiths, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, M.DCC.LIV. [1754]. ESTC No. N18652. Grub Street ID 8121.