Publications of the author;-and

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 the author;-and

  • Christophilus.. A serious inquiry whether a late epistle from the Rev. Mr. Charles Wesley to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley be not An evident Mark of their being unhappily fallen into one of the most crafty and most dangerous Wiles of the Devil, for the Delusion of many innocent, unthinking Christians; by inducing their Hearers to have too high an Opinion of Them, as the peculiar Servants of God, and Apostles sent by Him to save an apostate, sinking Church, and encouraging them utterly to contemn their own Regular pastors, set over them by the Providence of God, whom they by their false Insinuations represent as Apostates from the Church of England, and the true Church of Christ; by Christophilus, An Humble Christian. London?]: Printed for the author;-and sold by the book-sellers in England and Wales, and by the men who carry the news, M,DCC,LV. [1755. ESTC No. N34906. Grub Street ID 23196.