Publications of John Nicholson

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 John Nicholson

  • Wilkins, John. Mathematical magick: or the wonders that may be perform'd by mechanical geometry. In two books. Concerning mechanical powers. motions. Being one of the most easy, pleasant, useful, (and yet most neglected) part of the mathematicks. Not before treated of in this language. The fifth edition. By the Right Reverend Father in God, John Wilkins, late Lord Bishop of Chester. London: printed for John Nicholson; Benj. Tooke; And. Bell; and Ralph Smith, 1707. ESTC No. N65231. Grub Street ID 47138.
  • Heylyn, Peter. A help to English history, containing a succession of all the Kings of England, the English, Saxons, and the Britains; the Kings and Princes of Wales, the Kings and Lords of Man, and the Isle of Wight: AS Also Of all the Dukes, Marquesses, Earls and Bishops thereof; With The Descriptions of the places from whence they had their Titles; Together with the Names, and Ranks of the Viscounts, Barons and Baronets of England. By P. Heylyn, D.D. And since his death, continu'd to this present year, 1709. with the Coats of Arms of the Nobility, Blazon'd. London: printed by Benj. Motte, for J. Nicholson, G. Conyers, J. and B. Sprint, and Tho. Ballard, in Little-Britain, 1709. ESTC No. N17458. Grub Street ID 6926.
  • Ozanam, Jacques. Cursus mathematicus: or, a compleat course of the mathematicks. In five volumes. Vol. I. Contains a short Treatise of Algebra, and the Elements of Euclid. Vol. II. Arithmetic and Trigonometry, with correct Tables of Logarithms, Sines and Tangents. Vol. III. Geometry and Fortification. Vol. IV. Mechanics, and Perspective. Vol. V. Geography and Dialling. The whole illustrated with near 200 copper plates. Written in French by Monsieur Ozanam, Professor of the Mathematicks at Paris. Now done into English, with additions and corrections by several hands. London: printed for John Nicholson at the Queen's-Arms in Little-Britain, and sold by John Morphew near Stationers-Hall, MDCCXII. [1712]. ESTC No. N15362. Grub Street ID 5090.
  • Echard, Laurence. A most compleat compendium of geography, general and special; describing all the empires, kingdoms, and dominions, in the whole world. ... Together with an appendix of general rules for making a large geography, with the great uses of that science. ... Collected accordin to the latest discoveries, and agreeing with the choicest and newest maps. The eighth edition ... By Laurence Echard, . London: printed for J. Nicholson: and S. Ballard, 1713. ESTC No. T137779. Grub Street ID 185683.
  • Gregory, David. The elements of astronomy, physical and geometrical. By David Gregory M. D. Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, and Fellow of the Royal-Society. Done into English, with additions and corrections. To which is annex'd, Dr. Halley's synopsis of the astronomy of comets. In two volumes. . London: printed for J. Nicholson at the King's-Arms in Little-Britain, and sold by J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall, MDCCXV. [1715]. ESTC No. N1387. Grub Street ID 3766.
  • Mige, Guy. The present state of His Majesty's dominions in Germany. Containing an exact description of the same, and a new map of them all. London: printed for John Nicholson, Andrew Bell, Ralph Smith, and James Round, 1717. ESTC No. N11513. Grub Street ID 1514.