Publications of the Court

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 Court

  • East India Company.. Papers respecting the negociation for a renewal of the East-India Company's exclusive trade. London]: Printed by the Court of Directors for the information of the proprietors, [1793. ESTC No. T43598. Grub Street ID 272164.

Printed for the Court

  • City of London (England). Court of Common Council.. Kite, Mayor. A Common-Council holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London, on Wednesday the 25th day of December, 1767, and in the seventh year of the Reign of King George the Third, of Great Britain, &c. London: printed for the Court of Common Council, [1767]. ESTC No. N72309. Grub Street ID 52095.