Publications of 1746, and

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 1746, and

  • Boston, Thomas. A view of the covenant of grace from the sacred records: wherein the parties in that covenant, the making of it, its parts conditionary and promissory, and the administration thereof, are distinctly considered: together with the trial of a saving personal in-being in it, ... To which is subjoin'd, a memorial concerning personal and family fasting ... By ... Thomas Boston, minister of the gospel at Ettrick. [Edinburgh]: Reprinted in the year 1746, and sold in North-Britain by most part of the booksellers in towns and country, who formerly sold the other parts of the author's works, [1746]. ESTC No. N47857. Grub Street ID 32497.