Publications of J. Moxon

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 J. Moxon

  • Moxon, Joseph. Mechanick exercises: or, The doctrine of handy-works. Applied to the art of smithing in general. By Joseph Moxon, late member of the Royal Society, and hydographer [sic] to King Charles II. The second edition with additions.. London: printed and sold by J. Moxon, at the Atlas in Warwick-Lane, 1693-1694. ESTC No. R25166. Grub Street ID 108875.

Printed for J. Moxon

  • Caus, Isaac de. A new and rare invention of water-works, teaching how to raise water higher than the spring, by which invention the perpetual motion is proposed, and many hard labours performed. By Isaac de Caus, ... As also, a description of Capt. Savory's engine for raising ... water by fire. London: printed for J. Moxon, and sold by Thomas Shelmerdine, 1711. ESTC No. N5258. Grub Street ID 36562.