Publications of T. Butler

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 T. Butler

  • Homan, Judith. The whole of the trial, on an action brought by Judith Homan, spinster, against Richard Johnson, for non-performance of a marriage contract, in His Majesty's Court of Exchequer, on Wednesday the 14th of February, 1787, before ... a special jury ... of Dublin, ... Dublin: printed by T. Butler, 1787. ESTC No. N26081. Grub Street ID 15451.

Printed for T. Butler

  • Secker, Thomas. A sermon preached on occasion of the present rebellion in Scotland, at the parish-church of St. James, Westminster, and the chapels belonging to it, October 6, 13, 1745. By Thomas, Lord Bishop of Oxford. Published at the Request of the Parishioners. Dublin: printed by A. Reilly, for T. Butler in Ross-Lane, and W. Brien in Dame-Street Booksellers, M,DCC,XLV. [1745]. ESTC No. N23866. Grub Street ID 13227.