Publications of Gilbert Macpherson

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 Gilbert Macpherson

  • Marchant, John. The bloody tribunal: or an antidote against Popery. Being a review of the horrid cruelties of the Inquisition, as practised in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and the East and West-Indies, On all those whom the Church of Rome brands with the Name of Hereticks. Containing A Description of the most dreadful and exquisite Tortures on the several Persons who have unhappily fallen into the Hands of those Tyrants over Mens Consciences, the Jesuits and Popish Priests: Designed For The use and Instruction of all Protestant Families, to secure them as well against the Attacks of Popery, with which our Religion and Liberties are at this Time threatened, as against the pernicious Principles, which the Emissaries of Rome are now very busy in propagating among the People of these Kingdoms. By John Marchant, Gent. Author of the Comments of the Old and New Testament. Aberdeen: printed for Gilbert Macpherson, and sold at the printing-house in the head of the Upper-Kirkgate, MDCCLXX. [1770]. ESTC No. T133282. Grub Street ID 182125.