Publications of the books

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 the books

  • Hill, John. A catalogue of curious and valuable foreign books, which have been received, in the course of the year 1773, by Dr. Hill, in exchange for The vegetable system; and his other works; and are to be sold at his house in Saint James's Street; at the annexed prices: to which are added, a catalogue of English books;. London: Catalogues may be had gratis at Dr. Hill's, in St. James's Street; of Mr. White, in Fleet-Street; Mr. Robson, in Bond Street; Mr. Elmsly, in the Strand; Mr. Baldwin, in Pater-noster Row; Mr. Ridley, in St. James's Street; Mr. Davies, in Russel Street; Mr. Davis, in Holborn; Mr. Dodsley, in Pall Mall; J. and T. Fletcher, in The Turl, Oxford; and Mr. Woodyer, at Cambridge. By any of whom, orders for the books are also received, 1774. ESTC No. N43718. Grub Street ID 29417.