Publications of Right Reason

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 Right Reason

  • Henley, John. The coup de grace: Mr. Bayle's prophesy fulfilled, in Luther Junior his last stroke to compleat the Reformation. Invalidating the title of ecclesiastical estates, . The third edition, corrected and enlarged ... London: printed for Right Reason, Esq; and to be had at the pamphlet shops in Paternoster-Row, Ivy-Lane, Warwick-Lane, Ludgate-Street, the Royal Exchange, Fleet-Street opposite St. Dunstans, the Strand opposite St. Clement's, Charing-Cross, Westminster-Hall, Court of Requests, Bond-Street, Grosvenor-Street, and all booksellers in town and country, [1745?]. ESTC No. N44518. Grub Street ID 29923.