Publications of J. Lewis

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. Lewis

  • The bee reviv'd: or, the prisoners magazine. Containing ... curiosities, in prose and verse, ... For the benefit of the compiler, a prisoner of debt in Whitechapel jail. London [England]: printed and sold by J. Lewis, in Pater-Noster-Row, near Cheapside; and may be had of P. Brown, opposite St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street, and at the pamphlet-shops in London and Westminster, M.DCC.L. [1750]. ESTC No. P3410. Grub Street ID 56751.

Sold by J. Lewis

  • Downes, Samuel. A narration of the lives of the thirteen compilers of the liturgy of the Church of England. Humbly address'd to the most Reverend the Arch-Bishops, the Right Reverend the Bishops, and all the Reverend Clergy of the said Church. London: printed and sold by J. Lewis in Paternoster-Row, near Cheapside; and sold also by all the booksellers in Oxford and Cambridge, [1751?]. ESTC No. T112600. Grub Street ID 164576.

Printed for J. Lewis

  • Nobleman. A review of the arguments for an immature peace; in which they are refuted by a series of reasons entirely new; shewing, how we might have brought fifty thousand Russians, Danes, Swedes, &c. to our assistance without any Expence to us, and thereby have kept our principal conquests. By a nobleman. Never turned in, nor turned out. London: printed for J. Lewis, Tower-Street; and sold by Mrs. Cooke, at the Change, G. Rossiter, Cheapside; W. Cooke, Paternoster Row; P. Stevens, Stationers Alley; and all booksellers and pamphlet-shops, 1763. ESTC No. N48809. Grub Street ID 33284.