Publications of J. Bew

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. Bew

  • A letter addressed to Samuel Vaughan, Esq; ... intended as an answer to his reply to the case of Mr. John Robertson, late china-man in St. Paul's Church Yard, published in indication of his character. London: printed and sold by J. Bew, 1775. ESTC No. T37748. Grub Street ID 267314.

Printed for J. Bew

  • Cawthorne, Joseph. Thoughts on America: together with an idea of conciliation, adapted to the natural and legislative rights of the colonies, and to The Supremacy of Great-Britain. London: printed for J. Bew Paternoster-Row, 1776. ESTC No. N27689. Grub Street ID 16933.