Publications of (Joseph). J Downing

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 and for, or by/for and sold by (Joseph). J Downing

  • Nessel, Mathieu. A treatise concerning the medicinal Spaw waters. By M. Nessel, physician of the Spaw in Germany. Dedicated to the College of Physicians of London. Translated out of French into English. Published for the Discovering and Preventing of the common Imposition in the Use of bad Spaw Waters, which never came from the Spaw. Containing Directions likewise for such as Drink them. London: printed and sold by J Downing in Bartholomew-Close near West-Smithfield; And by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1715. ESTC No. T51620. Grub Street ID 278841.

Author

  • Downing, (Joseph). J. A treatise on the disorders, incident to horned cattle, comprising a description of their symptoms, ... by J. Downing. To which are added receipts, for curing the gripes, staggers, and worms in horses, and an appendix, ... Stourbridge: printed and sold by J. Rollason, sold also by T. N. Longman, London; T. Pearson, Birmingham; N. Rollason, Coventry, 1797. ESTC No. N47875. Grub Street ID 32517.