Publications of Francis Childs

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 Francis Childs

  • The Daily advertiser; political, historical, and commercial. New York [N.Y.]: Printed by Francis Childs, 1785-1787. ESTC No. P5353. Grub Street ID 57190.
  • Flatbush farmer.. To the inhabitants of King's County. Friends and fellow-citizens, You were addressed a few days since, in Dutch, by a person under the signature of a King's County farmer, intended as a reply, to a publication of mine, to you on the 23d day of March. ... (New-York: Printed by Francis Childs.), [1788]. ESTC No. W34472. Grub Street ID 345109.
  • Third Congress of the United States: At the second session, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the third of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four. An act to authorize the president to call out and station a corps of militia, in the four western counties of Pennsylvania, for a limited time. [Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Childs, 1794]. ESTC No. W10336. Grub Street ID 319451.
  • Kitchell, Aaron. Mr. Kitchell's motion. 1st April 1796, referred to the committee of the whole House, on Wednesday next, to whom is committed the message from the president of the United States of the 30th ultimo. Published by order of the House of Representatives. [Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Childs?, 1796]. ESTC No. W1002. Grub Street ID 319115.

Sold by Francis Childs

  • Hamilton, Alexander. A defence of the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, entered into between the United States of America & Great Britain, as it has appeared in the papers under the signature of Camillus. New-York: Printed and sold by Francis Childs and Co. and sold by James Rivington, at no. 156, Pearl-Street, also, at the other book stores of this city, --1795. ESTC No. W4816. Grub Street ID 353765.
  • Jay, John. Letters, being the whole of the correspondence between the Hon. John Jay, Esquire, and Mr. Lewis Littlepage. A young man whom Mr. Jay, when in Spain patronized and took into his family. New-York: Printed and sold by Francis Childs, at the new-printing-office, no. 189, Water-Street, M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]. ESTC No. W19539. Grub Street ID 329190.

Printed for Francis Childs

  • Barlow, Joel. Advice to the privileged orders, in the several states of Europe, resulting from the necessity and propriety of a general revolution in the principle of government. Part II. By Joel Barlow, author of The vision of Columbus, A letter to the national convention, and The conspiracy of kings. [New York]: Paris--printed: New-York--re-printed for Francis Childs & Co. and J. Fellows, by George Forman, --1794--. ESTC No. W18491. Grub Street ID 328098.