Publications of J. Hancock

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 J. Hancock

  • East India Company.. Letter to the Right Honourable Henry Dundas, one of His Majesty's principal secretaries of State, &c. &c. &c. from the committee of buyers of East-India piece goods for home consumption, respecting the prohibition of India muslins. London: printed by J. Hancock, Barbican; and sold by J. Debrett, Piccadilly, and Wm. Richardson, Cornhill, M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]. ESTC No. T197169. Grub Street ID 230355.

Printed for J. Hancock

  • A funeral monument: or the manner of the herse of the most renowned Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex and Ewe, Viscount Hereford, L. Ferrers of Charley, Bourchier and Lovaine, Englands late Lord Generall, who deceased Septemb. 14. 1646. VVith a briefe recitement of his valour and fidelity in the kingdomes just cause, against the enemies of religion, Parliament and kingdome, whose funerall is to be solemnized on Tuesday the 13. of October, 1646. [London]: Printed for J. Hancock in Popes-head Alley, 1646. ESTC No. R210629. Grub Street ID 86749.