Publications of J. Billingsley

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 J. Billingsley

  • Marseille. Chambre du Conseil de l'Hôtel de Ville.. An historical account of the plague at Marseilles. Giving a particular relation of all the different occurrences that happen'd during the visitation of that city. Publish'd by Authority at Paris, and faithfully translated from the original French. By J. S. M.D. To which is added, a letter from Monsier Pons, Physician of the Faculty of Montpelier, wrote from Marseilles (while he resided there by Order of the Regent) to Monsieur de Bon Chevalier, first President of the Court of Aids and Finances of Montpelier; discovering the Nature and Cause of the Pestilence, its Symptoms, and the Methods and Medicines used for the Recovery of the Infected. The second edition revised: to which is added, a particular and distinct description of the city of Marseilles. London: printed for J. Billingsley, under the Royal-Exchange; A. Dodd, without Temple-Bar; and J. Fox, in Westminster-Hall, M,DCC,XXII. [1722]. ESTC No. N2381. Grub Street ID 13168.
  • B., E.. The highland rogue: Or, The memorable actions of the celebrated Robert Mac-Gregor, commonly called Rob-Roy. Containing a genuine account of his education, grandeur, and sudden misfortune; his commencing robber, and being elected captain of a formidable gang; his exploits on the highway, breaking upon houses, taking prisoners, commencing judge, and levying taxes; his defence of his manner of living; his dispute with a Scotch parson open predestination; his joining with the Earl of Marr in the rebellion; his being decoy'd and imprison'd by the Duke of --------, with the manner of his escape, &c. Introduc'd with a relation of the unequal'd villanies of the clan of the Mac-gregors for several years past. The whole impartially digested from the memorandums of an authentick Scotch MS. London: Printed for J. Billingsley under the Royal Exchange; J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane A. Dodd without Temple-Bar; and J. Fox in Westminster-Hall, 1723. ESTC No. T109114. Grub Street ID 161929.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by J. Billingsley

  • Author of ----.. Love upon tick: or, implicit gallantry. Exemplified, in some merry memoirs of the rise and progress of an extraordinary and occasional amour. In which The Whole Mechanism of that Passion is Expos'd, and made Obvious to the Meanest Capacity. By the author of ----. London: printed and sold by J. Billingsley, and W. Meadows, in Cornhill: T. Worral, against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street: and J. Stagg, in Westminster-Hall, MDCCXXIV. [1724]. ESTC No. N11655. Grub Street ID 1658.