Publications of Gideon Crawfurd

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 Gideon Crawfurd

  • Smith, John. The curiosities of common water: or the advantages thereof, in preventing and curing many distempers. Gather'd from the writings of several eminent physicians, and also from more than forty years exprience [sic]. By John Smith, C.M. To which are added some rules for preserving health by diet. The ninth edition, with additions. Communicated by Mr. Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S. and others. Edinburgh: printed by T. L. and J. R. for Gideon Crawfurd Book-Seller in the Parliament-Closs, M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]. ESTC No. N3002. Grub Street ID 19008.

Author

  • Crawfurd, Gideon. A catalogue of curious and valuable books, (being the libraries of two private gentlemen lately deceas'd) which will begin to be sold on Monday the 26th of May, at the shop of Gideon Crawfurd, bookseller in the Parliament-Close. ... Catalogues to be had at the place of sale. The sale to continue till the 12th of August. Edinburgh: printed in the year, 1755. ESTC No. N47162. Grub Street ID 31900.