Publications of J. Cobham

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 by J. Cobham

  • Douglas, John. The cornutor of seventy-five. Being a genuine narrative of the life, adventures, and amours, of Don Ricardo Honeywater, fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at Madrid, Salamanca, and Toledo; and president of the Academy of Sciences in Lapland. Containing (amongst many other diverting particulars) his intrigue with Dona Maria W-s, of Via Vinculosa, in the city of Madrid. [Written] originally in Spanish, by the author of Don ..., and translated into English, by a graduate [of] the College of Mecca in Arabia. The second edition, [with] many additions and improvements.. London: Printed for J. Codham, near St. Paul's, [1748?]. ESTC No. T34187. Grub Street ID 264528.

Printed for J. Cobham

  • Caraffa, Mohammed. The exclusion of the English; an invitation to foreigners. The humble representation of Mohammed Caraffa, the Grand Turk; in behalf of himself, and all the wandering Gypsies, Tartars, Persians, Chinese, Indians, &c. particularly the Jews, that they may share the benefits of a general naturalization bill. With some hints of the advantages that may accrue by adopting the cannibals and wild Arabs. London: printed for J. Cobham, 1748. ESTC No. N31438. Grub Street ID 20325.
  • C---e, Mr.. An apologetical discourse for a late celebrated Apology: shewing the real end and design of that treatise; and containing many curious and remarkable observations on the times, and on persons. Written by the real author of the Apology, and by mistake sent to the printer in the room of another manuscript. Being in effect an Antidote to the Second-Rate Minister. London: printed for J. Cobham near St. Paul's, MDCCXLVIII. [1748]. ESTC No. T22210. Grub Street ID 245139.