Publications of Oxford-arms Passage

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 Oxford-arms Passage

  • Houstoun, James. Dr. Houstoun's memoirs of his own life-time. Containing, amongst other curious particulars, during upwards of thirty years travels, an account of I. The Scotch settlement at Darien. II. The great advantages accruing to Great Britain from an incorporated union of the whole island. III. The rise and progress of the Royal African and Assiento Companies. IV. The rise and fall of the grand South Sea Bubble, &c. in 1720. V. The conduct of the Spaniards, and the manner of their trade in the West Indies. VI. The secret expedition thither in 1740. VII. Some anecdotes of the government of Jamaica, with the characteristicks of its inhabitants. VIII. The importance of Cape-Breton to the British nation. IX. An essay on genius and education. Collected from the author's original manuscripts, and publish'd by Jacob Bickerstaff, M.A. London: printed for Lawton Gilliver, in Oxford-arms Passage, Warwick-Lane, and sold by W. Owen, near Temple-bar, Fleet-Street, MDCCXLVII. [1747]. ESTC No. N71373. Grub Street ID 51656.