Publications of Thomas Becket

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 Thomas Becket

  • Jesse, William. A sermon delivered in the parish-church of West Bromwich, in the county of Stafford, on Wednesday, March 12, 1800, the day appointed for a general fast and humiliation. "doubtless there is a God that judgeth the Earth." By William Jesse, M. A. Chaplain to the Earl of Glasgow. Birmingham: printed at T.A. Pearson's printing office, High-Street, and sold by T. Becket, Pall Mall, and Messrs. Rivington, London. - The profits of this publication, if any, will be given to the support of the Soup Shop in West Brom-Wich, [1800?]. ESTC No. T18018. Grub Street ID 216851.

Printed for Thomas Becket

  • Lee, Arthur. Observations on the review of the controversy between Great-Britain and her colonies. London: printed for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, in the Strand, MDCCLXIX. [1769]. ESTC No. N10034. Grub Street ID 44.