Publications of the Oxford

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 Oxford

  • Huddesford, William. Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum viri clarissimi Antonii A Wood. Being A minute Catalogue Of each Particular Contained in the Manuscript Collections of Antony A Wood deposited in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. By William Huddesford, M. A. Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford: printed at the Clarendon-Press. Sold by the Oxford booksellers, and by J. Fletcher in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London, MDCCLXI. [1761]. ESTC No. T3220. Grub Street ID 262928.

Printed for the Oxford

  • Attorney.. Proposals humbly offered to the Parliament for remedying the great charge and delay of suits at law and in equity. The sixth edition. By an attorney. London: printed for James Roberts in the Oxford Arms Passage Warwick Lane, MDCCXXX. [1730]. ESTC No. N12389. Grub Street ID 2391.