Publications of John Porteous

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 John Porteous

  • Charles. The last will and codicil of Charles II. King of Spain. Made the 2d. of October 1700. With the letters that have past betwixt the Most Christian King, and the Regency of Spain, on that subject. Translated at large from the authentick copy, printed at Paris in Spanish and French, by the French Kings autbority [sic]. London: printed by H: R: and A: B: for John Porteous in Edinburgh, and sold at his shop, 1701. ESTC No. N34000. Grub Street ID 22432.

Author

  • Porteous, John. The trial of Capt. John Porteous, before the High Criminal Court, or Lords of Justiciary, in Scotland; for wounding and killing several persons at a late execution of a criminal, in the Grass-Market at Edinburgh, by Firing and ordering his Men to Fire on the Spectators. Newcastle upon Tyne: printed and sold by John White: sold also by the booksellers of Newcastle and Durham, [1736]. ESTC No. T174154. Grub Street ID 211254.
  • Porteous, John. The trial of Capt. John Porteous, before the High Criminal Court, or Lords of Justiciary, in Scotland; for firing, and ordering the men under his command to fire, upon the populace, at the execution of Andrew Wilson, ... in Edinburgh, on the 14th of April 1736. Dublin: printed by and for J. Jones, 1736. ESTC No. T174156. Grub Street ID 211256.
  • Porteous, John. The trial of Capt. John Porteous, before the High Criminal Court, or Lords of Justiciary, in Scotland. London: printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXXXVI. [1736]. ESTC No. T51686. Grub Street ID 278905.
  • Porteous, John. The tryal of Capt. John Porteous, before the High Criminal Court or Lords of Justiciary, in Scotland. Stamford: printed by Francis Howgrave, 1736. ESTC No. T226095. Grub Street ID 247750.
  • Porteous, John. The genuine tryal of Capt. John Porteous, before the High Criminal Court, or the Lords of Justiciary, in Scotland; for firing his own piece, and ordering the men under his command to fire amongst the spectators, at the Execution of Andrew Wilson, in the Grass-Market of Edinburgh, the 14th of April, 1736. By which six Persons were kill'd, viz. Charles Husband, Archibald Ballantyne, John Anderson, Alexander Macneil, Margaret Gordon, and Henry Graham: And eleven Persons dangerously wounded, viz. Margaret Arthur, Jane Peat, David Wallace, James Philp, David Kidd, Patrick Spalding, James Lyle, Alexander Wallace, John Miller, David Ogilvie, and James Nivan. Containing 1. The Libel or Indictment of his Majesty's Solicitor-General against Porteous. 2. Interlocutor, or Judgment of the said Lords on the 6th July, 1736, upon it. 3. The Names of the Assize or Petit-Jury. 4. The Prisoner's judicial Confession. 5. The Information for his Majesty's Advocate, for his Highness's Interest, against Captain. The second edition.. London: printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe, in Pater-Noster Row, M.DCC.XXXVI. [1736]. ESTC No. T40777. Grub Street ID 269813.