Publications of G Kearsly

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 G Kearsly

  • Coke, Edward. The first part of the institutes of the laws of England; or a commentary upon Littleton, Not the Name of the Author only, but of the Law itself. Authore Edwardo Coke, milite. The thirteenth edition. Also three learned tracts of the same authore: The First, his Reading upon the 27th of Edward I. Intitled, De Finibus Levatis; The Second, of Bail and Mainprize; and the Third, his Complete Copyholder. Together with the treatise of the old tenures. The whole revised and corrected by Francis Hargrave, of Lincoln's-Inn, Esq. With the addition of various readings of Littleton, From The More Early Editions; and a preface, notes, and references, by the editor. And also an analysis of Littleton. Written by an Unknown Hand in 1658-9, but never before published. London: printed for G Kearsly, near Srrjeant's-Inn [sic], in Fleet-Street; and G. Robinson, in Paternoster-Row, MDCCLXXV. [1775]. ESTC No. T117843. Grub Street ID 169423.