Publications of F. Gyles

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 F. Gyles

  • Gordon, Alexander. Itinerarium septentrionale: or, A journey thro' most of the counties of Scotland, and those in the north of England. In two parts. Part I. Containing an account of all the monuments of Roman antiquity, found and collected in that journey, and exhibited in order to illustrate the Roman history in those parts of Britain, from the first invasion by Julius Caesar, till Julius Agricola's march into Caledonia, in the reign of Vespasian. And thence more fully to their last abandoning the island, in the reign of Thedosius Junior. With a particular description of the Roman walls in Cumberland, Northumberland, and Scotland; their different stations, watch-towers, turrets, exploratory castles, height, breadth, and all their dimensions; taken by an actual geometrical survey from sea to sea: with all the altars and inscriptions found on them: as also a view of the several places of encampment, made by the Romans, their castles, military ways, &c. Part II. An account of the Danish invasions on Scotland,. London: Printed for F. Gyles in Holbourn; D. Browne, at the Black-Swan without Temple-Bar; Woodman and Lyon, in Russel Street, Covent-Garden; and C. Davis in Hatton Garden, MDCCXXVII. [1727]. ESTC No. N8655. Grub Street ID 53560.