Publications of Joseph Downing

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 Joseph Downing

  • Moore, John. Of the truth and excellency of the Gospel. A sermon preach'd before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, at their anniversary meeting, in the parish-church of St Mary-le-Bow, on Friday the 20th of February, 1712/11 [sic]. By ... John, Lord Bishop of Ely. London: printed and sold by Joseph Downing; and Thomas Caldicott, 1713. ESTC No. T14060. Grub Street ID 188297.

Printed for Joseph Downing

  • Wynne, William. The life of Sir Leoline Jenkins, judge of the High-Court of Admiralty, And Prerogative Court of Canterbury, &c. Ambassador and plenipotentiary for the general peace at Cologn and Nimeguen, And Secretary of State to K. Charles II. And a compleat series of letters, from the Beginning to the End of those Two Important Treaties. Wherein are related The most Remarkable Transactions of those Times, both Foreign and Dome stick. Together with Many valuable Papers and Original Letters, relating to the Rights and Privileges of the Universities, and other weighty Subjects. And the Resolution of many difficult and curious Points in the Common and Civil Law, Laws of Merchants and of Nations, that arose within the Time of his Ministry. Never before published. In two volumes. By William Wynne, of the Middle-Temple, Esq;. London: printed for Joseph Downing, in Bartholomew-Close; William Taylor, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row; William and John Innys, at the West-End of St. Paul's; and John Osborn, at the Oxford-Arms in Lombard-Street, M.DCC.XXIV. [1724]. ESTC No. T145598. Grub Street ID 192331.