Publications of John Phillips

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 Phillips

  • Toland, John. The second part of the state anatomy, &c. Containing a short vindication of the former part, against the misrepresentations of the ignorant or the malicious, especially relating to our ministers of state, and to foreigners; with some reflections on the design'd clamor against the army, and on the Suedish conspiracy, also, letters to His Grace, the Late Archbishop of Canterbury, and to the dissenting ministers of all denominations, in the year 1705-6, about a general toleration, with some of their answers to the author: who now offers to publick consideration, what was then transacted for private satisfaction; together with a letter from their High-Mightinesses the States-General, of the United Provinces, on the same subject. London: printed for John Phillips; and sold by J. Brotherton, and P. Meadows, at the Black Bull in Cornhill, and J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, MDCCXVII. [1717]. ESTC No. T47349. Grub Street ID 275313.