Publications of James Duncan

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 James Duncan

  • The ladies help to spelling. By James Robertson, school-master in Glasgow. Glasgow: printed by James Duncan: and sold by the author in Gibson's Closs, 1722. ESTC No. T194590. Grub Street ID 228497.
  • Erskine, Ralph. Glad tidings in sad times: or, the city of God, in the times of trouble and confusion, water'd with the river of consolation. A sermon on Psalm xlvi. 4. preached in Annandale, ... August 27. 1738. By the Reverend Mr. Ralph Erskine ... Glasgow: printed by James Duncan for David Duncan; and sold at his House near the foot of the West-Bow, 1739. ESTC No. T162766. Grub Street ID 201483.
  • A wonderful prophecy, By one, called Nixon, who lived in Cheshire, in the reign of King James VI. of Scotland, and I. of England. Foretelling several remarkable events relating to the United Kingdoms of Great Britain, some of which are already accomplish'd, and others to be accomplished (as alledged) in the Reign of our Sovereign King George II. With a short description of that prophet. Glasgow: printed and sold by James Duncan, [1740?]. ESTC No. T60617. Grub Street ID 286457.
  • Thom, William. The trial of a student at the College of Clutha. in the Kingdom of Oceana. Glasgow: printed by James Duncan, and sold at his shop, opposite the Main Guard, Trongate, MDCCLXVIII. [1768]. ESTC No. N13950. Grub Street ID 3849.

Sold by James Duncan

  • Remarks on the fast, appointed by the Associate Presbytery; wherein is proven, I. That the Reverend Mr. George Whitfield is a minister of the gospel. II. That the work at Cambuslang is the operation of the blessed spirit. III. That the said fast is, 1st, inconsistent ... [Glasgow]: Edinburgh printed, and Glasgow re-printed and sold by James Duncan, 1742. ESTC No. T168869. Grub Street ID 206734.

Printed for James Duncan

  • Addison, Joseph. The evidences of the Christian religion. With additional discourses on the following subjects, viz. Of God and His attributes. ... Death and judgment. Collected from the writings of the Right Hon. Joseph Addison, Esq;. Glasgow: printed for James Duncan Junr., 1764. ESTC No. N31224. Grub Street ID 20127.
  • Witherspoon, John. Ministerial fidelity in declaring the whole counsel of God. A farewel sermon, delivered at Paisley in April and May 1768. By John Witherspoon, D.D. Glasgow: printed by A. Duncan and Company, for James Duncan; and William Walker, 1768. ESTC No. N34646. Grub Street ID 22976.
  • The new-England primer improved, for the more easy attaining the true reading of English. To which is added, the Assembly of Divines' catechism. Glasgow: printed by David Niven; for James Duncan, Bookseller, Trongate, MDCCLXXXV. [1785]. ESTC No. N10082. Grub Street ID 94.