Publications of the heirs

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 by the heirs

  • Defoe, Daniel. A memorial to the nobility of Scotland, who are to assemble in order to choose the sitting peers for the Parliament of Great Britain. Edinburgh: printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to the Queens most Excellent Majesty, anno Dom, 1708. ESTC No. N10924. Grub Street ID 913.

Sold by the heirs

  • A perfect list of the several persons residenters in Scotland, who have subscribed as adventurers in the joynt-stock of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies. Together with the respective sums which they have severally subscribed in the books of the said company, amounting in the whole to the sum of 400000 lib. sterling. Edinburgh: printed and sold by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, printer to the King's most excellent Majesty, anno dom. 1696. ESTC No. R41896. Grub Street ID 123380.

Printed for the heirs

  • Mercer, Thomas. The young accomptant's remembrancer. Directing him to find the proper debitors and creditors in the most usual transactions and occurrences of trade. With the method of ballancing accompts, and transferring them into a new liedger [sic]. By Tho. Mercer. The sixth edition.. London: printed for the heirs of the author T.M. and sold by R. Hayes and F. Raw; and by John Garret, [1718?]. ESTC No. N66401. Grub Street ID 48137.