Publications of Hudson and

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 Hudson and

  • The Children's magazine. Hartford, Conn.: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, 1789. ESTC No. P5436. Grub Street ID 57263.

Sold by Hudson and

  • Webster, Noah. An American selection of lessons in reading and speaking. Calculated to improve the minds and refine the taste of youth. And also to instruct them in the geography, history, and politics of the United States. To which is prefixed, rules in elocution, and directions for expressing the principal passions of the mind. Being the third part of A grammatical institute of the English language. By Noah Webster, Jun. Esquire. Hartford: Printed and sold by Hudson and Goodwin, at their printing-office, a few rods north of the bridge, M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]. ESTC No. W11579. Grub Street ID 320785.

Printed for Hudson and

  • Doctor Watts's imitation of the Psalms of David, corrected and enlarged, by Joel Barlow. To which is added a collection of hymns; the whole applied to the state of the Christian church in general. Hartford: Printed [by Joel Barlow and Elisha Babcock] for Hudson and Goodwin, and Nathaniel Patten. (With the privilege of copy-right.), [1786]. ESTC No. W30909. Grub Street ID 341281.