Publications of Joseph Cottle

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 Joseph Cottle

  • Southey, Robert. Poems by Robert Southey. Volume the first. Bristol: printed by Biggs and Cottle, for Messrs. Longman and Rees, London, 1799. ESTC No. N67373. Grub Street ID 48959.

Printed for Joseph Cottle

  • Marryat, Thomas. Sentimental fables. Designed chiefly for the use of the ladies. By Thomas Marryat, M.D. Bristol: printed for Joseph Cottle, 1791. ESTC No. N21859. Grub Street ID 11214.
  • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Poems, by S. T. Coleridge, second edition. To which are now added poems by Charles Lamb, and Charles Lloyd. [Bristol]: Printed by N. Biggs, for J. Cottle, Bristol, and Messrs. Robinsons, London, 1797. ESTC No. N11843. Grub Street ID 1848.
  • Ahmad. 'Aks-i partaw. A series of poems, containing the plaints, consolations, and delights of Achmed Ardebeili, a Persian exile. With notes historical and explanatory. By Charles Fox. Bristol: printed by Bulgin and Rosser, for J. Cottle; G. G. and J. Robinson, and Cadell and Davies, London, 1797. ESTC No. T106291. Grub Street ID 159463.