Publications of the honourable

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 the honourable

  • South Sea Company.. A list of the names of the Corporation of the Governor and Company of Merchants of Great-Britain, trading to the South-Seas, and other parts of America, and for encouraging the fishery. Who are qualified to vote at the ensuing election for Governor, Sub-governor, and Deputy-governor, to be made on Tuesday the second, and of directors on Thursday the fourth day of February next: together with part of the seventh by-law concerning elections. London: [printed by the honourable] South-Sea Company, M.DCC.XLVII.] [1747. ESTC No. N71249. Grub Street ID 51550.