Publications of the editor

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 the editor

  • Browne's general law list for the year 1800, With The Names And Residences Of All The Judges and Serjeants, King's Counsel & Barristers Provincial Counsel, Justices under the Police Act Equity-Draetsmen, Special-Pleaders, Conveyancers, Benchers of the Inns of Court Under-Sheriffs and Agents, Certificated Attorneys, from the Rolls, Register and Certificate Books, Public Notaries, Officers of the Law-Courts, Masters In Chancery, and Provincial Extra ditto, Commissioners of Bankrupts Doctors and Proctors, Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, City-Companies, &c. Peers, English and Scots, House of Commons, Qualifications, and Number of Votes. Lords Lieutenants, High-Stewards, County Treasurers, Count. Recievers-General, Clerks Of At The Peace, Coroners, Collec-OF The Excise, Recorders, Town-Clerks. &c. Civil and Law Offices, and Holydays kept at Each, Coffee-Houses, in London, and by whom Kept, London News-Papers, and where Published, &c. &c. English and Welch Circuits, with the Judges, Serjeants, Counsel, &c. The nineteenth edition, with great improvements. Corrected .. to the present time.. London: printed and sold by the editor, and sole proprietor, in Bridge-Lane. [J. Browne] Sold also by J. Butterworth, Fleet-Street, [1800]. ESTC No. N15635. Grub Street ID 5342.

Sold by the editor

  • Harmonia sacra. Or. [sic] a collection of Psalm tunes, with interludes & a thorough bass: ... To which are added, an introductory voluntary, anthems and hymns; ... The words principally selected from Mr. Merricks psalms. Intended to promote that chastity, . London: printed and sold by the editor no.3 Ferry street Lambeth. and at Randall's music shop, [1781]. ESTC No. N49904. Grub Street ID 34038.

Printed for the editor

  • The literary museum; or, a selection of scarce old tracts: Viz. 1. The right Renoumyde Ladies, translated from Boccace. 2. A delicate Diet for dainty-mouthed Droonkardes, by Gascoyne. 3. Poems of Spenser, not in any Edition. 4. Peacham's Period of Mourning, in Six Visions. 5. Specimen of a New Edition of Ben Jonson. 6. Ceremonies used for healing the King's Evil, consecrating Cramp Rings, &c. 7. On Lydgate's Travelling into France. 8. The New Arcadia, by Belcher. 9. Downe's Roscius Anglicus; or, Theatrical History, &c. &c. London: printed for the editor, [1792]. ESTC No. N19229. Grub Street ID 8659.