Publications of J. Bonwicke

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. Bonwicke

  • Kersey, John. A new English dictionary: or, a compleat collection of the most proper and significant words, and terms of art, commonly used in the language, with a continued short and clear exposition. The whole digested into alphabetical order; and chiefly design'd for the benefit of young scholars, tradesmen, artificers, foreigners, and the female sex, who would learn to spell truly; being so fitted to every capacity, that it may be a ready and continued help to all that want an instructor. As also three useful tables, viz. I. Of proper names of men, especially those that are contained in the Holy Bible; shewing their true original and derivation. II. Of proper names of women; with the same explication. III. Of nick-names, or English christian names abbreviated or made short. The seventh edition, carefully revised: with many important additions and improvements. By J.K. London: printed for J. Bonwicke; and C. Hitch and L. Hawes in Pater-noster Row, M.DCC.LIX. [1759]. ESTC No. N70117. Grub Street ID 50847.