Publications of John Rivington II

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 John Rivington II

  • Hervey, James. The time of danger, the means of safety, and the way of holiness: Being the substance of three sermons preached on publick fast days. To which are added, a visitation sermon, preached at Northampton, May 10, 1753: and considerations on the prevailing custom of visiting on sundays: being the author's answer to this question, whether it be right for truly-serious persons to visit on Sundays? The fifth edition. By James Hervey, A.M. late rector of Weston-Favell, in Northamptonshire. London: Printed by John Rivington, Jun. for John, Francis, and Charles Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]. ESTC No. N13393. Grub Street ID 3309.
  • The royal gazette extraordinary. London]: Printed by J. Rivington, [1780. ESTC No. N44818. Grub Street ID 30112.
  • Gaskin, George. The word preached by the Christian ministry. A sermon, delivered in the parish-churches of Mepal and Sutton, in the diocese and Isle of Ely, On Sunday, December 23, 1781. By George Gaskin, M. A. Rector of Mepal cum Sutton; and Lecturer of St. Mary, Islington, Middlesex. London: printed by John Rivington, junior, St. John's-Square, 1782. ESTC No. T52721. Grub Street ID 279749.