Publications of the booksellers
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:
- "printed by x"; or
- "sold by x"; or
- "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,":
- "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 by the booksellers
- Cibber, Theophilus. The tryal of a cause for criminal conversation Between Theophilus Cibber, Gent. Plaintiff, and William Sloper, Esq; Defendant. Dublin: re-printed and sold by the booksellers, M,DCC,XXXXIX. [1749]. ESTC No. N13612. Grub Street ID 3510.
Sold by the booksellers
- Lovell, Salathiel. Mr. Baron L------'s charge to the grand jury for the county of Devon, the 5th of April, 1710. at the castle of Exon. The famous speech-maker of England: or, Baron (alias Barren) L---'s charge, at the assizes at Exon, April 5th, 1710. London: printed and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1710. ESTC No. N10324. Grub Street ID 332.