Publications of J, [sic]

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 J, [sic]

  • Walwyn, William. Physick for families, discovering a safe way, and ready means, whereby every one at sea or land, may with Gods assistance be in a capacity of curing themselves, or their relations, in all distempers or extremities, without any the hazards, troubles, or dangers, over usual, in all other wayes of cure. London: printed by J, [sic] Winter, and are to be sold by Robert Horn in Gresham Colledg [sic] Court, 1669. ESTC No. R15165. Grub Street ID 63123.

Printed for J, [sic]

  • Yonge, Anthony. The husbandman's companion: containing a cheap, easy, and effectual method of curing the several disorders incident to horses, ... birds, &c. With their nature and properties; methods of breaking, training, feeding, &c. By Anth. Younge, Esq. The second edition.. London: printed for J, [sic] Barker, 1781. ESTC No. N53756. Grub Street ID 37656.