Publications of J. Butler

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. Butler

  • Anderson, James. The new book of constitutions of the most ancient and honourable fraternity of free and accepted masons. Containing their history, charges, regulations, &c. Also Some rules necessary to be observed by the Committee of Charity, not Published before, Together with a Choice Collection of Mason's Songs, Poems, Prologues, and Epilogues. Published by the order, and with the sanction of the Grand-Lodge. Collected from the book of constitutions published in England, in the year 1738, by our worthy brother James Anderson, D.D. For the use of the lodges in Ireland. By Edward Spratt, sec. Dublin: printed by J. Butler, on Cork-Hill, for the editor, and sold at his house in Nicholas-Street, M,DCC,LI. [1751]. ESTC No. N40789. Grub Street ID 27642.