Publications of Alexander Strahan

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 Alexander Strahan

  • Lee, Francis. Apoleipomena. Or, Dissertations theological, mathematical, and physical; with a critical commentary of the most difficult places of the book of Genesis: wherein the divine authority of Moses is vindicated against the objections of all sceptics, deists, and other infidels. To which are prefixed, a short account of the author; proposals given to Peter the Great, Czar of Muscovy, anno 1698. for the right framing of his government. And a second edition of the dissertation upon the second apocryphal book of Esdras. By the late pious and learned Francis Lee, M.D. In two volumes. The whole faithfully transcribed, and corrected, from the author's original manuscripts. For the benefit of his daughter. London: printed for Alexander Strahan, at the Golden Ball in Cornhill, MDCCLII [1752]. ESTC No. T116001. Grub Street ID 167688.