Publications of the engraver

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 the engraver

  • Bickham, George, the younger. A geometrical construction to form the twenty-four letters of the alphabet ... engraved on twenty-four copper-plates by George Bickham, jun. London: printed and sold by the engraver, 1740. ESTC No. T185034. Grub Street ID 221282.

Printed for the engraver

  • Pye, Charles. Provincial copper coins or tokens, issued between the years 1787 and 1796, engraved by Charles Pye, of Birmingham from the originals in his own possession. London]: Publish'd for the engraver, by John Nichols Red-Lion passage, Fleet Street, and T. Egerton, Whitehall, London; & Thos. Pearson, Birmingham, [1795. ESTC No. T105266. Grub Street ID 158625.