Publications of J. Davidson

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."

Sold by J. Davidson

  • Yeo, excise officer. William. The method of ullaging and inching all sorts of casks and other utensils, used by common brewers, victuallers, distillers, &c. in a new, easy, and accurate manner, by tables of segments. Likewise, The Method of finding their full Contents. Very useful for the Officers of the Revenue, And all other Persons concerned in Gauging. By William Yeo. London: printed for the author, by E. Owen: and sold by J. Davidson, in the Poultry; R. Montagu, in Wild-Street; W. Reeve, in Fleet-Street; and at the printing-office in Hand-Court, Holborn, MDCCXLIX. [1749]. ESTC No. T129446. Grub Street ID 178906.

Printed for J. Davidson

  • Bradbury, Thomas. The duty and doctrine of baptism. In thirteen sermons. By Thomas Bradbury. London: printed for J. Davidson at the Angel in the Poultry, T. Trye near Gray's-Inn Gate in Holborn, J. Ward in Cornhill, and G. Keith at Mercers-Chapel in Cheapside: and sold by the booksellers of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen, M.DCCXLIX. [1749]. ESTC No. N9040. Grub Street ID 53938.