Publications of John Collins

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 Collins

  • Collins, Samuel, of Archester, Northamptonshire. Paradise retriev'd: plainly and fully demonstrating the most beautiful, durable, and beneficial method of managing and improving fruit-trees. Against Walls, or in Hedges, Contrary to Mr. Lawrence, and Others upon gardening. Together with a treatise on mellons and cucumbers. By Samuel Collins Esq; of Archester in Northampton-Shire. London: printed for John Collins, Seedsman, over-against the May-Pole in the Strand; and sold by him, and R. Burleigh, in Amen-Corner, M.DCC.XVII. [1717]. ESTC No. T43626. Grub Street ID 272195.