Publications of J. Bach

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 J. Bach

  • Head, Richard. The English rogue; or, Witty extravagant: described in the life of Meriton Latroon. Containing the description of his birth and parentage: his early waggeries, and more mature villanies: the hardships and punishments he endured: the many policies and stratagems he invented to support himself; and the various discoveries of cheats and rogueries made by him: his many escapes from danger; and the frequent troubles and pressures of mind he lay under, for his wicked exploits: his many witty expressions and observations of things and matters: his amorous discourses and entertainment. And, in fine, his various fortunes and misfortunes through the whole course of his life: with the eminent cheats and artifices of either sex laid open, as a warning to all persons to shun the mischiefs that attend an evil course of life, &c. In five parts. The fifth edition, with large additions, farther compleating the whole history of his life.. London: printed for J. Back, at the Black Boy, on the middle of London-Bridge, 1702. ESTC No. N50118. Grub Street ID 34228.