Publications of Mr. John

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 Mr. John

  • Fothergill, George. The proper improvement of divine judgments. A sermon preached before the Mayor and Corporation, at St. Martin's in Oxford, on Friday, February 6. 1756. Being the Day appointed to be kept as a Fast, on Account of the present important Situation of Publick Affairs, and particularly on Occasion of many dreadful Earthquakes, at Lisbon and other Places. By George Fothergill, D.D. Principal of St. Edmund Hall. Publish'd at the Request of the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, and Assistants of the City. Oxford: printed at the Theatre for Richard Clements: and sold by Mr. John Rivington in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London; Mr. Thurlbourn in Cambridge; and Mr. Leake in Bath, MDCCLVI. [1756]. ESTC No. T1256. Grub Street ID 175727.

Printed for Mr. John

  • Spinage, John. The reasonableness and advantages of granting fines-certain by corporations. Address'd to the corporation of Abingdon, Berks. By John Spinage, a principal burgess of the same, and author of the compendious method of book-keeping. London: printed for Mr. John Whiston; and Mr. Stevens, 1751. ESTC No. N65059. Grub Street ID 46989.