Publications of Messrs. Rivingtons

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 Messrs. Rivingtons

  • Clericus.. A letter to the Parliament of Great-Britain, on the intended application of the Protestant dissenters, for obtaining a repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts. By a member of the University of Cambridge. To which is added, a genuine extract of a letter from King Charles the First, to his son the Prince of Wales, afterwards King of England. London: printed and sold by Messrs. Rivingtons, St. Paul's Church-Yard, and to be had of all booksellers, 1790. ESTC No. T148189. Grub Street ID 194577.

Printed for Messrs. Rivingtons

  • Milton, John. Comus, a mask presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, before the Earl of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales: by John Milton. With notes critical and explanatory by various commentators, and with preliminary illustrations; To Which IS Added A Copy Of The Mask From A Manuscript Belonging To His Grace The Duke Of Bridgewater: By Henry John Todd, M. A. Chaplain To The Right Hon. The Earl Of Fife And The Lord Viscount Kilmorey, And Minor Canon Of Canterbury. Canterbury: printed by and for W. Bristow on the Parade: for Messrs. Rivingtons St. Paul's Church-Yard, and W. Clarke New Bond-Street, London; Messrs. Fletcher and Co. Oxford; and J. Deighton Cambridge, MDCCXCVIII. [1798]. ESTC No. T134609. Grub Street ID 183232.