Publications of M. Swinney.

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 M. Swinney.

  • A key for kings. Integrity the best security: a patriot king, the best prince to make a nation prosperous, and it's government firm and lasting ... Birmingham: printed by M. Swinney. Sold by William Penrice, in Drotwitch, Worcestershire, M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]. ESTC No. N12420. Grub Street ID 2423.

Sold by M. Swinney.

  • Simpson, David. Sacred literature: shewing the holy scriptures to be superior to the most celebrated writings of antiquity, by the testimony of above five hundred witnesses, and also by a Comparison of their Several Kinds of Composition. In Twelve Books. To which are Added, Epistles and Extracts, from some of the Most Early of the Christian Fathers. The Whole Intended not only to recommend the Bible as superior to all other Books, but as a moral and theological Repository for Christians of every Rank and Degree. In four volumes. By the Revd. David Simpson, M.A. Birmingham: printed and sold by M. Swinney. Sold also by Dilly, Buckland, Matthews, Scollick, Trapp, London; Spence, York, Bulgin, Bristol; Clarke, Manchester; Bayley, Macclesfield; and all other booksellers in town and country, MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]. ESTC No. T78394. Grub Street ID 300259.