Publications of Forest-Street, 1731?

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 Forest-Street, 1731?

  • Davies, Joseph. An humble proposal that may be a better defence to Gibraltar, a security for all our shiping [sic] that trades in the Straights, and entirely check and restrain the Growth of Highwaymen, Foot-Pads, House breakers, Shop lifters. Incendiaries and Others, that are guilty of enormous Crimes, rendering them useful, that in case of a War, may be a Hundred Thousand a Year in this Kingdoms way, and to the great increase of our Home Trade. By Joseph Davies. Chester: printed by W. Cook, in Forest-Street, [1731?]. ESTC No. N3692. Grub Street ID 24872.