Publications of the Looking-Glass

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 the Looking-Glass

  • Fenning, Daniel. A new system of geography: or, a general description of the world. Containing A Particular and Circumstantial Account of all the Countries, Kingdoms, and States of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Their Situation, Climate, Mountains, Seas, Rivers, Lakes, &c. The Religion, Manners, Customs, Manufactures, Trade, and Buildings of the Inhabitants. With The Birds, Beasts, Reptiles, Insects, the various Vegetables, and Minerals, found in different Regions. Embellished with a new and accurate set of maps, by the best Geographers; and great variety of copper-plates, containing Perspective Views of the Principal Cities, Structures, Ruins, &c. By D. Fenning, (author of the Royal English Dictionary, the Use of the Globes, the Young Algebraist's Companion, &c.) J. Collyer, (author of the Letters from Felicia to Charlotte; and Translator of the Messiah, from the German of Mr. Klopstock.) and others. London: printed for S. Crowder, at the Looking-Glass, in Pater-Noster-Row; and sold by Mr. Jackson, at Oxford; Mr. Merril, at Cambridge; Mess. Smith, in Dublin; and all other Booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland, MDCCLXVI. [1765]. ESTC No. T133336. Grub Street ID 182155.