Publications of T. Axtel

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 T. Axtel

  • Joe Miller's jests: or, the wits vade-mecum. Being a collection of the most brilliant jests, the most excellent bons mots, and most pleasant short stories in the English Language; many of them transcribed from the Mouth of the Facetious Gentleman whose Name they bear. To which are added, choice collections of moral sentences, and of the most pointed and truly valuable epigrams in the British Tongue; With the Names of the Authors to such as are known. Most humbly Inscribed To those choice spirits of the age, His Majesty's Poet-Laureat, Mr. David Garrick, Mr. The. Cibber, Mr. Justice Bodens's Horse, Tom Jones, the most impudent Man living, the Rev. Mr. Henley, and Job Baker the Kettle-Drummer. A new edition.. London: printed for T. Axtel, at the Royal Exchange, [1775?]. ESTC No. T208011. Grub Street ID 236995.