Publications of M. Trapp

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."

Sold by M. Trapp

  • Death's harvest home, for this year 1791. With other visible signs that the end of the world and day of judgment draweth nigh. ... Containing, I. Some remarks on the ripe harvest, ... III. A discourse, ... By Mr. S. Smith, ... author of The great assize, ... To which are further added, 1. A letter from an atheist to his companion. 2. Of two professed atheists. By Mr. Middleton. 3. The conversion of Colonel Gardiner,. London: printed and sold by M. Trapp; Mr. Mathews; J. Jordan; at no. 73, Chiswell-Street, and by other booksellers, [1791]. ESTC No. N66578. Grub Street ID 48290.

Printed for M. Trapp

  • Serle, Ambrose. The Christian parent: or, Short and plain discourses concerning God, and the works and word of God, in creation, redemption, and sanctification: intended originally for some young persons in a family. London: printed for H. Trapp, no. 1. Pater-noster-Row; also sold by J. Mathews, no. 18. Strand, 1789. ESTC No. N52379. Grub Street ID 36363.