Publications of Allason Foster

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 Allason Foster

  • Draper, John. The navigator's veni-mecum, or a complete system of the art of navigation; containing every thing necessary to be known in Arithmetic, Geometry, and Trigonometry, to qualify a person for keeping an accurate, rational, and true account of a ship's way at sea. And also how to direct her to any Port desired. To which are added traverse tables, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, &c. which render this work complete and independent. By J. Draper Teacher of the Mathematicks, and Author of the Young Student's Pocket Companion. Whitehaven: printed and sold by Allason Foster; also sold by M. Little; J. Coupland; and T. Davis; and by the author, MDCCLXXIII. [1773]. ESTC No. T209031. Grub Street ID 237753.