Publications of John Duncan

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 John Duncan

  • Phillips, Edward. The stage-Mutineers: or, a play-house to be let. A tragi-comi-farcical-ballad opera, as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. By a gentleman late of Trinity-College, Cambridge. The second edition.. London: printed for H. Slater, in Clements Inn; F. Noble, at Otway's Head, St. Martin's-Court; T. Wright, at the Bible in Exeter-Exchange, Strand; J. Duncan, in St. Martin's-Court, St. Martin's-Lane, [1733]. ESTC No. T68219. Grub Street ID 292535.
  • An historical account of mandrakes, both male and female. With a particular account of those which Rachel long'd for. London: printed for H. Slater, in Clements Inn; F. Noble, at Otway's Head, St. Martin's-Court; T. Wright, at the Bible in Exeter-Exchange, Strand; J. Duncan, in St. Martin's-Court, St. Martin's-Lane, MDCCXLI. [1741]. ESTC No. T86894. Grub Street ID 306993.
  • Castiglione, Baldassare. Il cortegiano, or the courtier: written by the learned Conte Baldassar Castiglione, and a new version of the same into English. Together with his other celebrated pieces, as well Latin as Italian, both in prose and verse. To which is prefix'd The life of the author. By A. P. Castiglione, Gent. The second edition.. London: printed for H. Slater, in Clement's-Inn; F. Noble, at Otway's Head, in St. Martin's-Court, near Leicester-Fields; W. and T. Payne, at Horace's Head in Round-Court, opposite York-Buildings in the Strand; T. Wright, at the Bible, in Exeter-Exchange; and J. Duncan, in St. Martin's Court, near Leicester-Fields, MDCCXLII. [1742]. ESTC No. T160849. Grub Street ID 200131.
  • Philosophical dissertations, With Proper reflections, Proving, 1. The Non-Eternity of Matter, and that there is a Vacuum. 2. That there must necessarily be one Self-Existent Being in three Self-Existent Properties, with Attributes, infinitely Perfect. Proved a Priori. 3. That the Light and Heat of the Sun, dispersed into the Planetary System, are purely Spirituous, and carry along with them no Particles or Effluvia of Real Matter. 4. That the Soul is Immortal. The third edition, corrected and enlarged. To which is added, three philosophical dissertations, (never before Publish'd.) Proving, 1. That Space is absolutely Infinite. 2. That Matter is not infinitely divisible. 3. That the Universal Space is not interspersed throughout with Material Globes. By Benjamin Parker, Author of the Philosophical Meditations, &c. London: printed for John Duncan, at Homer's Head in St. Martin's Court, the Upper-End of St. Martin's Lane, near Leicester Fields, MDCCXLIII. [1743]. ESTC No. T42245. Grub Street ID 271041.