Publications of James Dickson

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 James Dickson

  • Translations and paraphrases, in verse; of several passages of sacred scripture. Collected and prepared by a committee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, in order to be sung in churches. Edinburgh: printed and sold by James Dickson, 1798. ESTC No. T226570. Grub Street ID 248090.

Printed for James Dickson

  • Baylies, William. Facts and observations relative to inoculation in Berlin, and to the possiblity of having the small-pox a second time. By William Baylies, M.D. Member of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh, and privy-counsellor and Physician to the King of Prussia. Edinburgh: printed for James Dickson, 1781. ESTC No. N68181. Grub Street ID 49660.