Publications of John Bruce

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 Bruce

  • Phaedrus. Phædri Aug. liberti fabularum libri V. Juxta exemplar a Petro Burmanno editum, 1727. Cui subnetitur versio anglica, ... Or, the fables of Phædrus, with a literal English translation, for the use of schools. To which are added, critical notes. Edinburgh: printed by John Bruce and Company, 1769. ESTC No. T171010. Grub Street ID 208674.

Author

  • Bruce, John. A true copy of the paper, deliver'd by Capt. John Bruce, at the place of execution at Lancaster, on Tuesday the 2d of October, 1716. Who was executed for high-treason. London: printed for A. and W. Bell, at the Cross-Keys and Bible in Cornhill; J. Baker and T. Warner at the Black-Boy in Pater-Noster-Row, 1716. ESTC No. N51004. Grub Street ID 35024.