Publications of J. Newton

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. Newton

  • Bacon, Francis. The essays, or councils, civil and moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. With a table of the colours of good and evil. And a discourse of the wisdom of the ancients. To this edition is added the character of Queen Elizabeth; never before printed in English.. London: printed and sold by J. Newton, at the Three-Pigeons against the Inner-Temple-Gate in Fleet-Street, 1696. ESTC No. R15130. Grub Street ID 63092.

Printed for J. Newton

  • Robinson, Thomas. The anatomy of the earth. By Tho. Robinson, Rector of Ousby in Cumberland. London: printed for J. Newton, at the Three Pigeons in Fleet-street, 1694. ESTC No. R12287. Grub Street ID 60490.