Publications of J. Newbery

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 J. Newbery

  • Thompson, Charles. The travels of the late Charles Thompson, Esq; containing his observations on France, Italy, Turkey in Europe, the Holy Land, Arabia, Egypt, and many other parts of the world: ... publish'd from the author's original manuscript, interspers'd with the remarks of several other modern travellers, ... Reading: printed by J. Newbery and C. Micklewright, 1744. ESTC No. T51603. Grub Street ID 278825.

Sold by J. Newbery

  • Martin, Benjamin. A course of lectures in natural and experimental philosophy, geography and astronomy: in which the properties, affections, and phænomena of natural bodies, ... are exhibited and explain'd on the principles of the Newtonian philosphy, ... The whole confirmed by experiments, and illustrated with copper-plates. ... By Benjamin Martin. Reading: printed and sold by J. Newbery and C. Micklewright: also by Mess. Ware, Birt, Astley, Austen, Robinson, Dodsley and Needham, in London; Mr. Fletcher in Oxford; Mr. Thurlbourn in Cambridge; Mess. Ward and Chandler at York and Scarborough; Mr. Collins in Salisbury; Mr. Frederick at Bath; Mr. Craighton in Ipswich; and Mr. Wimpey in Newbury, 1743. ESTC No. T10165. Grub Street ID 155504.

Printed for J. Newbery

  • Townley, James. High life below stairs. A farce of two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. The third edition.. London: printed for J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun in St. Paul's Church-Yard; R. Bailye, at Litchfield; J. Leake and W. Frederick, at Bath; B. Collins, at Salisbury; and S. Stabler at York, MDCCLIX. [1759]. ESTC No. N17717. Grub Street ID 7182.