Publications of Elizabeth Janeway

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.

Printers (owners of the type and printing presses, and possibly owners of the copyright) may be identified by the words printed by, but printed by does not universally designate a person who is a printer by trade. Booksellers may be identified by the words sold by. Booksellers may also be identified by the words printed for, but nothing should be concluded in this regard without further evidence, especially since "printed for" could signify that the named person was a distributor (or what we might call a wholesaler) rather than a copyright holder. Copyright owners may also be identified by the words printed for. Trade publishers, who distributed books and pamphlets but did not own the copyright or employ a printer—and were not printers themselves—might be identified by the words printed and sold by. Furthermore, works from this period often display false imprints, whether to evade copyright restrictions, to conceal the name of the copyright holders, or to dupe unwitting customers. Ultimately, one must proceed with caution in using the following lists: designations in the imprints may not reliably reflect the actual trades or roles of the people named, and the formulas used in imprints do not consistently mean the same thing.

David Foxon discussed the "meaning of the imprint" in his Lyell Lecture delivered at Oxford in March 1976, with particular attention to "publishers" in the eighteenth-century context:

The fullest form of an imprint is one which names three people, or groups of people:
     London: printed by X (the printer), for Y (the bookseller who owned the copyright), and sold by Z.
In the eighteenth century the printer's name is rarely given, at least in works printed in London, and the form is more commonly:
     London: printed for Y, and sold by Z.
Very often in this period, and particularly for pamphlets, it is further abbreviated to:
     London: printed and sold by Z.
It is this last form which is my present concern. Z is usually what the eighteenth century called 'a publisher', or one who distributes books and pamphlets without having any other responsibility—he does not own the copyright or employ a printer, or even know the author.

He cautions, "The only way to avoid being misled is to regard any imprint which says a book is printed for a publisher as meaning it is sold by him" (5).

D. F. McKenzie coined the term "trade publisher" for these publishers in his Sandars Lectures, also in 1976, on the grounds that their principal role was to publish on behalf of other members of the book trade (Treadwell 100).

Michael Treadwell cautions that "In this period the imprint 'London: Printed and sold by A.B.' normally means 'Printed at London, and sold by A.B.' and must not be taken to mean that A.B. is a printer in the absence of other evidence." Further, "The imprint 'published by' occurs only rarely in Wing and is almost always associated with the name of a trade publisher" (104). While there are exceptions to the rule, it is "certain," he explains, "that anyone who made a speciality of distributing works for others will show a far higher proportion than normal of imprints in one of the 'sold by' forms" (116), which appear in the imprint as "sold by," "printed and sold by," or "published by" (104). Treadwell gives Walter Kettilby as an example of "a fairly typical copyright-owning bookseller" (106)—his role is almost always designated by the phrase "printed for" on imprints.

A final caution: publisher is a word that should be used with some deliberation. Samuel Johnson defines it simply as "One who puts out a book into the world," but "published by" rarely appears on the imprint until later in the eighteenth century, and then primarily associated with newspapers and pamphlets. Treadwell observes that John Dunton names only five publishers among the 200 binders and booksellers in his autobiographical Life and Errors (1705) wherein he undertakes "to draw the Character of the most Eminent [Stationers] in the Three Kingdoms" (100). Treadwell also remarks, however, that "in law, anyone who offered a work for sale 'published' it. In this sense every work had one or more 'publishers', and every bookseller, mercury, and hawker was a 'publisher'" (114).

See:

  • Terry Belanger, "From Bookseller to Publisher: Changes in the London Book Trade, 1750–1850," in Book Selling and Book Buying. Aspects of the Nineteenth-Century British and North American Book Trade, ed. Richard G. Landon (Chicago: American Library Association, 1978).
  • Bricker, Andrew Benjamin. "Who was 'A. Moore'? The Attribution of Eighteenth-Century Publications with False and Misleading Imprints," in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 110.2 (2016).
  • John Dunton, The Life and Errors of John Dunton (London: Printed for S. Malthus, 1705).
  • John Feather, "The Commerce of Letters: The Study of the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade," Eighteenth-Century Studies 17 (1984).
  • David Foxon, Pope and the Early Eighteenth-Century Book Trade, ed. James McLaverty (Oxford University Press, 1991).
  • Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language, (printed for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755).
  • D.F. McKenzie, The London Book Trade in the Later Seventeenth Century (Sandars lectures in bibliography, 1977).
  • Michael Treadwell, "London Trade Publishers 1675–1750," The Library sixth series, vol. 4, no. 2 (1982).

Printed by Elizabeth Janeway

  • Culpepper revived. Being an almanack for ... 1715 ... Calculated for the meridian ... of Cambridge ... By Nathanael Culpepper. London: printed by E. Janeway for the Company of Stationers, 1715. ESTC No. T191842. Grub Street ID 226503.
  • Tanner, John. Angelus Britannicus: an ephemeris for the year of our redemption, 1715. Being the third after the bissextile or leap-year from the creation of the world, 5664 the death of our Saviour, 1582 the conquest of this nation, 649 the restauration of K. Charles II. 55 the last great plague, 50 the burning of London, 49 the last great frost, 31 the death of K. Charles II. 30 the abdication of K. James II. 26 the death of K. William III. 13 Years. Amplifed with observations from the sun's ingress into the aequinoctial sign Aries, and the other cardinal points; with an account of the eclipses, conjunctions of the planets, and other configurations of the coelestial bodies. Calculated for the meridian of the famous city of London where the pole artick is elevated above the horizon 51 degr. 32 min. but may indifferently serve for Great Britain and Ireland, with other parts adjacent. By John Tanner, medic. & philomath. The fifty-ninth impression. London: Printed by Eliz. Janeway for the Company of Stationers, 1715. ESTC No. T55788. Grub Street ID 282351.
  • Swallow, John. Swallow: a new almanack for ... 1717 ... Calculated ... for ... Cambridge. London: printed by E. Janeway for the Company of Stationers, 1717. ESTC No. T194252. Grub Street ID 228220.
  • Culpepper revived. Being an almanack for ... 1717 ... Calculated for the meridian ... of Cambridge ... By Nathanael Culpepper. London: printed by E. Janeway for the Company of Stationers, 1717. ESTC No. T191841. Grub Street ID 226502.
  • Swallow, John. Swallow: a new almanack for ... 1718 ... Calculated ... for ... Cambridge. London: printed by E. Janeway for the Company of Stationers, 1718. ESTC No. T194254. Grub Street ID 228222.
  • Culpeper revived. Being an almanack for ... 1718 ... Calculated for the meridian ... of Cambridge ... By Nathanael Culpepper. London: printed by E. Janeway for the Company of Stationers, 1718. ESTC No. T191839. Grub Street ID 226499.
  • Culmann, Leonhard. Sententiæ pueriles, anglo-latinæ. Quæ ex diversis authoribus olim collegerat Leonardus Culman: et in vernaculum sermonem nuperrimè transtulit Carolus Hoole; Pro Primis Latinae Linguae Tyronibus. P. Antesignanus in Epist. and Saraeos Fratres. Doctrinae Opinionem affectent alij; ego pro mea virili parte, me puerorum & formandis & promovendis Studiis omnem meam operam addixisse aperte & ingenue fateor. = Sentences for children, English and Latin. Collected out of sundry authors long since, by Leonard Culman: and now translated into English, by Charles Hoole; For the first. Enterers into Latin. P. Antesignanus in his Epist. to the Saraei Brethren. Let Others affect the Opinion of Learning; I do plainly and ingenuously confess, I have seriously addicted my self both to Fashion and Promote Childrens Studies all that ever I can. London: printed by E. Janeway, for the Company of Stationers, 1720. ESTC No. T177771. Grub Street ID 214688.
  • Coote, Edmund. The English school-master. Teaching all his scholars, of what age soever, the most easy, short, and perfect order of distinct reading, and true writing our English tongue, that hath ever yet been known or published by any. And further also, teacheth a direct course, how any unskilful person may easily both understand any hard English words which they shall in scriptures, sermons, or elsewhere hear or read, and also be made able to use the same aptly themselves, and generally whatsoever is necessary to be known for the English speech; so that he which hath this book only, needeth to buy no other to make him fit from his letters to the Grammar-School, for an apprentice, or any other private use, so far as concerneth English: and therefore it is made not only for children, tho' the first book be mere childish for them; but also for all other, especially for those that are ignorant in the Latin tongue. In the next page the school-master bangeth forth his table to the view of all beholders, se. London: Printed by E. Janeway, for the Company of Stationers, 1720. ESTC No. N7066. Grub Street ID 51148.
  • Ravisius Textor, Joannes. Epistolae Joan. Ravisii Textoris. Non vulgaris eruditionis: nunc rec`ens, in gratiam studiosae juventutis, mult`o qu`am anteh`ac unquam emendatiores in lucem editae. Londini: Typis Eliz. Janeway, impensis Societatis Stationariorum, 1722. ESTC No. N66114. Grub Street ID 47890.
  • Castellion, Sébastien. Dialogorum sacrorum Libri IV. et ad linguam rect`e formandam, & ad vitam sanct`e instituendam, Christianae juventuti apprim`e utiles. Auctore Sebastiano Castalione. Editio decima quinta, prioribus long`e correctior.. Londini: Excudebat E. Janeway, Sumptibus Stationariorum, 1722. ESTC No. N65269. Grub Street ID 47169.
  • Culpepper revived. Being an almanack for the year of our Blessed Saviour's incarnation 1722 and from the creation of the world, according to the best of ecclesiastical history, 5671. Being the second after bissextile or leap-year. Wherein is briefly shewn the general state of the year, the solar ingresses, eclipses, full sea at London-Bridge, terms, and their returns, the sun and moon's rising and setting, with useful observations, and probable alterations or the air. Also the certain time of any mart of fair in any city or town in England, with a description of the most eniment roads therein. To which is added rules for physick and husbandry, with many other useful observations necessary for the compleating such a work. Calculated for the meridian of the famous university and town of Cambridge, where the pole artick is elevated above the horizon 52d. 17m. but may serve for any other part of Great-Britain. By Nathanael Culpepper, student in physick and the celestial science. London: printed by E. Janeway for the Company of Stationers, 1722. ESTC No. T18115. Grub Street ID 217742.
  • Swallow, John. Swallow: a new almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1722:. London: printed by E. Janeway, for the Company of Stationers, 1722. ESTC No. N36510. Grub Street ID 24483.
  • Swallow, John. Swallow: A new almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1724: Being the Bissextile or Leap-Year, and from the World's Creation 5727. Calculated properly for the Famous University and Town of Cambridge, where the North-Pole is elevated 52 Degrees 12 Min. above the Horizon: And may serve indifferently for any other Place of this Kingdom. Omnia falce metit tempus. London: printed by E. Janeway, for the Company of Stationers, 1724. ESTC No. T54629. Grub Street ID 281414.
  • A new version of the Psalms of David, Fitted to the Tunes used in Churches. By N. Brady, D. D. Chaplain in Ordinary, and N. Tate, Esq; Poet-Laureat to His Majesty. London: printed by E. Janeway, for the Company of Stationers. 1724. And are to be Sold at Stationers-Hall near Ludgate, and by most Booksellers, [1724]. ESTC No. T91864. Grub Street ID 311685.
  • Panterpe; id est delectare: Or, An almanack and an ephemeris of the planetary motions, for the year of our Lord God, 1724. It being bissextile or leap-year. And from the creation of the world, according to sacred writ, 5672. Wherein is contained the state of the year, the eclipces, lunations, conjunctions, and aspects of the planets; with the rising and setting of the sun; the length, increase, and decrease of the day; the southing of the seven stars; and a large chronology of things that hath happen'd ever since the creation of the world to this present year. Likewise the nightly rising, southing, and setting of the moon, with respect to her latitude. And many more useful things for such a work; wherein may be observed the propable state and condition of the year, as asforefaid. Calcualted according to art, and referred to the horison of Hinckley in Leicestershire, where the pole artick is cleavated 52 degrees, 36 minutes, and may very well serve Great Britain and Ireland, with other count. London: Printed by E. Janeway, for the Company of Stationers, 1724. ESTC No. T146593. Grub Street ID 193220.
  • Swallow, John. Swallow: a new almanack for the year of our Lord God, 1725:. London: printed by E. Janeway, for the Company of Stationers, 1725. ESTC No. T54628. Grub Street ID 281413.
  • Culpepper revived: being an almanack for the year of our blessed Saviour's incarnation 1725; ... By Nathanael Culpepper,. London: printed by E. Janeway, for the Company of Stationers, 1725. ESTC No. T18114. Grub Street ID 217733.