Publications of Benjamin Davies

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 for Benjamin Davies

  • Cobbett, William. The bloody buoy thrown out as a warning to the political pilots of America: or, A faithful relation of a multitude of acts of horrid barbarity, such as the eye never witnessed, the tongue never expressed, or the imagination conceived, until the commencement of the French Revolution. To which is added an instructive essay, tracing these dreadful effects to their real causes. Illustrated with four striking copper-plates. By Peter Porcupine. [Four lines from the Abbe Maury's speech to the National Assembly]. Philadelphia: Printed for Benjamin Davies no. 68. High-Street, MDCCXCVI. [1796]. ESTC No. W29986. Grub Street ID 340288.

Author

  • Davies, Benjamin. The American repository, and annual register of the United States, for the year 1799; containing a complete list of the executive, legislative, & judiciary departments of government, and a great variety of useful tables, necessary to be known in every state of the union. Embellished with a very handsome engraving. Philadelphia: Printed for B. Davies, No. 68, High-Street. By H. Sweitzer, [1798]. ESTC No. W14315. Grub Street ID 323716.