Publications of Alexander M'culloch

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 Alexander M'culloch

  • Euclid. Euclid’s elements of geometry. The essential parts of his propositions are set forth with all the clearness imaginable, and his reasoning explained and placed in so advantageous a light, that the eye the least attentive may perceive it. To render these elements still more easy, the different operations and arguments essential to a good demonstration, are distinguished in several separate articles. First. The preparation and demonstration are distinguished from each other. Secondly. The proposition being set down, what is supposed in the proposition, is made known, under the title of hypothesis, and what is affirmed, under that of Thesis. Thirdly. All the operations necessary to make known truths serve as a proof to an unknown one, are ranged in separate articles. Fourthly. The foundation of each proposition, relative to the figure, which forms the minor of the argument, is made known by citations; and a marginal citation recalls the truths already demonstrated, which is the major. In one word, nothing is omitted which may fix the attention of beginners, make them perceive the chain, and teach them to follow the thread of geometrical reasoning. Edited by Joseph Fenn, heretofore Professor of Philosophy in the University of Nants. Dublin: printed by Alexander M'culloch, [1770?]. ESTC No. N7820. Grub Street ID 52736.