Publications of M. Collyer

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 M. Collyer

  • A genuine letter to Mr. Joseph Fowke, from his brother near Lisbon, dated November 1755. In which is given a very minute and striking description of the late earthquake. London: printed for M. Collyer at the Royal-Exchange, [1755?]. ESTC No. T113998. Grub Street ID 165835.
  • A vindication of the Quakers, from the groundless asperisions of a malecontent writer, and the authors of some paragraphs in the public papers. London: printed for M. Collyer, 1756. ESTC No. N64727. Grub Street ID 46704.
  • Shebbeare, John. A fourth letter to the people of England. On the conduct of the M-rs in alliances, fleets, and armies, since the first differences on the Ohio, to the taking of Minorca by the French. London: printed for M. Collier, Bookseller at the Royal Exchange, MDCCLVI. [1756]. ESTC No. N18703. Grub Street ID 8173.