Publications of Rawson and

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 Rawson and

  • The adventures of Henry Fitzherbert, gentleman. London: printed for Rawson and co. Hull; and sold by Vernor and Hood, Birchin Lane, London, 1794. ESTC No. T66883. Grub Street ID 291545.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by Rawson and

  • Alderson, John. An essay on the rhus toxicodendron, pubescent poison oak, or sumach, with cases shewing it's efficacy in the cure of paralysis, and Other Diseases of Extreme Debility. By John Alderson, M. D. Member of the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh; -Philosophical and Literary Society; Newcastle And Physician to the General Infirmary at Hull. Hull: printed and sold by Rawson and Co. Sold also by J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard, London; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, [1794]. ESTC No. N582. Grub Street ID 41366.