Publications of David Mallet

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.

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 David Mallet

  • True lover of his king and country.. An hnmble [sic] address to all the truely loyal commons of England, by a true lover of his king and country. London: printed by D Mallet, 1680. ESTC No. R14457. Grub Street ID 62480.
  • A more full and exact account of that most dreadful fire, which happened at Wapping on Sunday night the nineteenth of this instant Novemb. between 10 and 11 a clock also a true and full account of the damages sustained by that dreadful fire whilst it continued burning al day on Munday. With a true account as near as can yet be given, of the manner of its first beginning, the number of houses burnt down, and of the number of persons that have perished in the raging flames. London: printed by D. Mallet, 1682. ESTC No. R16383. Grub Street ID 64242.
  • An account of the execution, and last dying speeches of Thomas Watson and Thomas Gourdon, who were executed, (the one for murthering his wife, and the other for high-treason) on Kenington-Common in the county of Surry, the 19th. of March, 1687. Together, with a true copp of a paper, left by Tho. Watson, in order to be published, and and [sic] recommended by him at the place of execution, to the spectators, as the real sense of what he further designed or intended to sayor [sic] leave, at his going out of this world, &c. Being written with his own hand in the Marshalsea prison. London: printed by D[avid]. Mallet, for G.P., MDCLXXXVII. ESTC No. R170035. Grub Street ID 64830.
  • To the Kings Most Excellent Majestie the humble address of poor distressed prisoners for debt. London: Printed by D. Mallet for G.P., 1687. ESTC No. R26320. Grub Street ID 109651.
  • Kenrick, Daniel. A sermon preached in the cathedral-church of Worcester, at the Lent assize, April 7th. 1688. By Daniel Kenrick, Master of Arts, and vicar of Kemsey in Worcestershire. Allowed to be published this 19th. day of June, 168[8]. London: printed by David Mallet, next door to the Star between Fleet-bridge and Bridewel-bridge, 1688. ESTC No. R29934. Grub Street ID 112844.
  • Gauden, John. The whole duty of a communicant: being rules and directions for a worthy receiving the most Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. By the Right Reverend Father in God, John Gauden, late Lord Bishop of Exeter. He being dead, yet speaketh. The fourth edition.. London: printed by D[avid]. M[allet]. for Hen. Rodes, next door to the Swan-Tavern, near Bride-Lane in Fleet-street, 1688. ESTC No. R177543. Grub Street ID 69612.
  • A full and true account of the landing and reception of the late King James at Kinsale, with the particulars of the ships, arms, ammunition, men and money, that he brought with him. In a letter from Bristol, April 1st. 1689. Licensed, April 4. 1689. James Fraser. London: printed by D[avid] M[allet], 1689. ESTC No. R11317. Grub Street ID 59613.
  • A full and true account of the late revolution in Dublin and of what hapned there from the time of the defeat of King James his army at the Boyne the first of July MDCXC. till His present Majesty's entry there. In a letter from a gentleman, who was then prisoner in the the [sic] Colledge of Dublin, to anothe[r] in London, August 15. 1690. Licensed September 15th. 1690. J. Fraser. London: printed by D[avid]. M[allet]., [1690]. ESTC No. R177230. Grub Street ID 69428.

Printed for David Mallet

  • Fearful and lamentable nevvs from VVorcester-shire, of a vvoman at Emlord near Stow in the Wold, that poyson'd her husband, her 2 sons, her daughter, and one of her neighbours at dinner, on Sunday the tenth of this instant May, 1674. With allowance. London: printed for D[avid?]. M[allet?]., 1674. ESTC No. R176980. Grub Street ID 69277.
  • The confession and execution of the prisoners at Tyburn on Wednesday the 17th of this instant May, 1676. Viz. Henry Seabrook, Elizabeth Longman, Robert Scot, condemned the former sessions. Edward Wall, and Edward Russell. Giving a full and satisfactory account of their crimes, behaviours, discourses in prison, and last words (as neer as could be taken) at the place of execution. Published for a warning, to all that read it, to avoid the like wicked courses, which brought these poor people to this shameful end. With permission, Ro. L'Estrange. London: printed for D[avid]. M[allet], [1676]. ESTC No. R171486. Grub Street ID 65706.
  • The confession and execution of the six prisoners suffering at Tyburn on Wednesday the 25th of October, 1676. Viz. John Seabrooke, Arthur Minors, William Minors, Henry Graves, Richard Shaw, Katherine Picket. Giving a full and satisfactory account of their crimes, behaviours, discourses in prison, and last words (as neer as could be taken) at the place of execution. Published for a warning to all that read it, to avoid the like wicked courses, which brought these poor people to his shameful end. With allowance, 1676. London: printed for D[avid]. M[allet]. 1676. ESTC No. R171488. Grub Street ID 65707.
  • Poor Gillian: or, Mother Redcap's weekly advice, in opposition to Poor Robin's wicked Intelligence. London [England]: printed for D[avid]. Mallet, 1677. ESTC No. P194. Grub Street ID 55681.
  • The tryal and condemnation of William Stalay for high-treason, on Thursday the 21th of November 1678. at the Kings-Bench barr at Westminster; for trayterously plotting and contriving the death of our most gracious Soveraign Lord the King, for which he received sentence to be hang'd, draw'd, and quarter'd. With allowance. London: printed for D. M. [David Mallet], 1678. ESTC No. R1307. Grub Street ID 61199.
  • Haines, Richard. A model of government for the good of the poor, and the wealth of the nation. With such a method and inspection, that frauds, corruption in officers, abuses to the poor, ill administration of materials, &c. therein may be prevented. The stock rais'd and preserved, all poor people and their children for ever comfortably provided for, all idle hands employed, all oppressed parishes eased, all beggars and vagrants for the future restrained, poor prisoners for debt relieved, and malefactors reclaimed; to their own comfort, God's glory, and the kingdoms wealth and honour. Humbly offered to the consideration of the great wisdom of the nation, viz. His most excellent Majesty, and both houses of Parliament. By R. Haines. To be had of Mris. Walton at the Parliament-stairs. With allowance. Ro. L'Estrange. London: printed for D. M[allet]., 1678. ESTC No. R172. Grub Street ID 66026.
  • The true relation, of the most barbarous and bloody murther of Thomas Thinn Esq, who was shot in his coach, by several outlandish ruffians, on the 12th of this instant Feb. 1681. With an acconnt [sic] of the taking five persons upon suspition of being concerned in the murther, whose names are, Christopher Uval, Phredrick Herbert, John Sterne, Amiens Berg, George Boriskie, who were examined before the King and Council, and thereupon committed to Newgate, where they remain in order to their tryals. London: printed for D. Mallet, 1681. ESTC No. R13059. Grub Street ID 61188.
  • A true and sad account of a barbarous bloody murther, committed upon the person of John Mulleny a hatter, late of the town of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster: who was murthered and cut to pieces by one John Loe, on the fifteenth of May, 1685. Giving a particular relation of all the circumstances that materially happened; as likewise of the apprehending the murtherer, &c. London: printed for D Mallet, [1685]. ESTC No. R12210. Grub Street ID 60420.