Publications of Jean Pierre Coderc

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 multiple roles in combination (which suggests a likelihood that the person is a trade publisher), or an obfuscation of the actual printer's name (e.g., "London: printed, and sold by x"):

  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 (see, e.g. Mary Cooper). The lists below reflect only the information on the imprint, except where ESTC provides extra information.

Printers (owners of the type and printing presses, and possibly owners of the copyright) may be identified by the words printed by, but printed by does not universally designate a person who is a printer by trade. Booksellers may be identified by the words sold by. Booksellers may also be identified by the words printed for, but nothing should be concluded in this regard without further evidence, especially since "printed for" could signify that the named person was a distributor (or what we might call a wholesaler) rather than a copyright holder. Copyright owners may also be identified by the words printed for. Trade publishers, who distributed books and pamphlets but did not own the copyright or employ a printer—and were not printers themselves—might be identified by the words printed and sold by. Furthermore, works from this period often display false imprints, whether to evade copyright restrictions, to conceal the name of the copyright holders, or to dupe unwitting customers. Ultimately, one must proceed with caution in using the following lists: designations in the imprints may not reliably reflect the actual trades or roles of the people named, and the formulas used in imprints do not consistently mean the same thing.

David Foxon discussed the "meaning of the imprint" in his Lyell Lecture delivered at Oxford in March 1976, with particular attention to "publishers" in the eighteenth-century context:

The fullest form of an imprint is one which names three people, or groups of people:
     London: printed by X (the printer), for Y (the bookseller who owned the copyright), and sold by Z.
In the eighteenth century the printer's name is rarely given, at least in works printed in London, and the form is more commonly:
     London: printed for Y, and sold by Z.
Very often in this period, and particularly for pamphlets, it is further abbreviated to:
     London: printed and sold by Z.
It is this last form which is my present concern. Z is usually what the eighteenth century called 'a publisher', or one who distributes books and pamphlets without having any other responsibility—he does not own the copyright or employ a printer, or even know the author.

He cautions, "The only way to avoid being misled is to regard any imprint which says a book is printed for a publisher as meaning it is sold by him" (5).

D. F. McKenzie coined the term "trade publisher" for these publishers in his Sandars Lectures, also in 1976, on the grounds that their principal role was to publish on behalf of other members of the book trade (Treadwell 100).

Michael Treadwell cautions that "In this period the imprint 'London: Printed and sold by A.B.' normally means 'Printed at London, and sold by A.B.' and must not be taken to mean that A.B. is a printer in the absence of other evidence." Further, "The imprint 'published by' occurs only rarely in Wing and is almost always associated with the name of a trade publisher" (104). While there are exceptions to the rule, it is "certain," he explains, "that anyone who made a speciality of distributing works for others will show a far higher proportion than normal of imprints in one of the 'sold by' forms" (116), which appear in the imprint as "sold by," "printed and sold by," or "published by" (104). Treadwell gives Walter Kettilby as an example of "a fairly typical copyright-owning bookseller" (106)—his role is almost always designated by the phrase "printed for" on imprints.

A final caution: publisher is a word that should be used with some deliberation. Samuel Johnson defines it simply as "One who puts out a book into the world," but "published by" rarely appears on the imprint until later in the eighteenth century, and then primarily associated with newspapers and pamphlets. Treadwell observes that John Dunton names only five publishers among the 200 binders and booksellers in his autobiographical Life and Errors (1705) wherein he undertakes "to draw the Character of the most Eminent [Stationers] in the Three Kingdoms" (100). Treadwell also remarks, however, that "in law, anyone who offered a work for sale 'published' it. In this sense every work had one or more 'publishers', and every bookseller, mercury, and hawker was a 'publisher'" (114).

See:

  • Terry Belanger, "From Bookseller to Publisher: Changes in the London Book Trade, 1750–1850," in Book Selling and Book Buying. Aspects of the Nineteenth-Century British and North American Book Trade, ed. Richard G. Landon (Chicago: American Library Association, 1978).
  • Bricker, Andrew Benjamin. "Who was 'A. Moore'? The Attribution of Eighteenth-Century Publications with False and Misleading Imprints," in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 110.2 (2016).
  • John Dunton, The Life and Errors of John Dunton (London: Printed for S. Malthus, 1705).
  • John Feather, "The Commerce of Letters: The Study of the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade," Eighteenth-Century Studies 17 (1984).
  • David Foxon, Pope and the Early Eighteenth-Century Book Trade, ed. James McLaverty (Oxford University Press, 1991).
  • Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language, (printed for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755).
  • D.F. McKenzie, The London Book Trade in the Later Seventeenth Century (Sandars lectures in bibliography, 1977).
  • Michael Treadwell, "London Trade Publishers 1675–1750," The Library sixth series, vol. 4, no. 2 (1982).

Printed by Jean Pierre Coderc

  • Arnoux, professeur. Claude. Parallels of the sounds and syllables of the French and English languages: or, the French pronunciation made easy to the English learner. Being a perpetual dictionary suited to all capacities, for the easy and speedy attaining the true pronunciation of the French tongue, and the French orthography. To which is prefixed, a dissertation on the French alphabet. And likewise is added, a dissertation teaching the true manner of reading and pronouncing French poetry. The whole laid down in a method entirely new. By Claudius Arnoux, teacher of the French and Latin languages. London: printed by R. Reily; for J. Stagg, in Westminster-Hall; T. Astley, at the Rose, and S. Austen, at the Angel and Bible, both in St. Paul's Church-Yard; R. Willock, at Sir Isaac Newton's Head in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange; J. Brindley, in New Bond-Street; N. Prevost, over against Southampton-Street, and P. Dunoyer, at Erasmus's Head, both in the Strand; Mr. Belton, at the Bee-Hives upon the Pavement in St. Martin's Lane; J.P. Coderc, at Pliny's Head in Little Newport-Street; and E. Comins, over-against the King's Arms in Little Britain, 1730. ESTC No. T113547. Grub Street ID 165473.

Sold by Jean Pierre Coderc

  • Rival, Pierre. Sermon Prononcé le 25 de juin, 1727 `a l'occasion de l'avenement du roy George II. `a la couronne. Dans la chapelle royale françoise du palais de St. James. Par Pierre Rival. Londres: de l'imprimerie de Sam. Jallasson, & se vend chez J. P. Coderc, 1727. ESTC No. N37395. Grub Street ID 25353.
  • Rival, Pierre. Recueil de quelques petites pieces en vers, pour la famille royale, rang'ees selon l'ordre des tems. Par Mr. Rival. Londres: de l'imprimerie d'Al. Campbell, & se vend chez J.P. Coderc, 1729. ESTC No. N48075. Grub Street ID 32682.
  • Palairet, Jean. A new royal French grammar, containing ... plain rules to attain to the thorough ... understanding ... of the French tongue ... A table of terminations ... fables by Mr. de Fenelon ... By ... John Palairet . London: printed by E. Howlatt, and sold by M. Chastel, A. Rocayrol, J. P. Coderc, J. Brindley, and J. Jackson, 1730. ESTC No. T210186. Grub Street ID 238424.

Printed for Jean Pierre Coderc

  • Durand, David. Histoire du seizième siécle, Premiere Partie, Livre I. Qui commence avec le regne de Louis XII. en 1498, & finit à la mort D'Isabelle de Castille en 1504. Les Livres suivans paroîtront réguliérement l'un après l'autre le 3. jour de chaque Mois. A Londres: pour Jean Pierre Coderc, Marchand Libraire, in Little-Newport-Street, à la tête de Pline, MDCCXXV. [1725]. ESTC No. T127783. Grub Street ID 177449.
  • Sermons choisis de divers auteurs, avec un fragment de la vie de M. Jaquelot, et une oraison funèbre de la Reine Marie. I. Londres: chez Jean Pierre Coderc, 1726. ESTC No. N36740. Grub Street ID 24700.
  • Stehelin, John Peter. Trait'e contre la transubstantiation, ou extrait de plusieurs sermons, Prononcés dans la Chapelle Françoise de Hammersmith, par J. Pierre Stehelin, Prêtre de L'Eglise Anglicane & Ministre de la dite Chapelle. A Londres: pour J.P. Coderc Libraire, à la tête de Pline dans Little Newport-Street, M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]. ESTC No. T124380. Grub Street ID 174595.
  • Durand, David. La sagesse de Dieu dans la vicissitude des biens & des maux: ou sermon sur ces paroles du Ps.XXX.6. ... Prononcé à S. Martin, à l'occasion de la mort inopinée du feu roi, George I. & de l'avenement de son fils, George II. à la couronne de la Grande Bretagne, &c. Par D. Durand,. Londres: chez Jean Pierre Coderc, 1727. ESTC No. N36228. Grub Street ID 24210.
  • Saint-Hyacinthe, Thémiseul de. Lettres critiques sur la Henriade de M. de Voltaire. Londres: imprimé chez Samuel Jallasson, in Prujean's Court, Old Baily; pour J. P. Coderc, Libraire in Little Newport - Street, a L'enseigne de Pline; & G. de Merville, Libraire à la Haye, 1728. ESTC No. N33578. Grub Street ID 22051.
  • Voltaire. La Henriade. De Mr. de Voltaire. Nouvelle edition non chatrée.. Londres: chez N. Prevost & C.; & J. P. Coderc, 1728. ESTC No. N33126. Grub Street ID 21647.
  • Church of England. Diocese of London. Bishop (1723-1748 : Gibson).. Lettre pastorale de Monseigneur l'Eveque de Londres aux fideles de son diocese, et particulierement aux habitans des deux grandes villes de Londres & de Westminster; . Londres: pour J.P. Coderc, 1729. ESTC No. N69307. Grub Street ID 50382.
  • Reflexions nouvelles sur les femmes, par une dame de la cour de France. Le prix est de douze sols. Londres: chez J. P. Coderc in little New-Port Street, M.DCCXXX. [1730]. ESTC No. T150014. Grub Street ID 195916.
  • Reflexions nouvelles sur les femmes, par une dame de la cour de France. Nouvelle edition corrigée.. A Londres: chez J. P. Coderc, in Little New-Port Stret, M.DCC.XXX. [1730]. ESTC No. T142613. Grub Street ID 189908.