Publications of J. Ford

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 J. Ford

  • Remarks on some late assertions in a great assembly, relative to East India affairs. London: printed by J. Ford, No. 9, Whitechapel, MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]. ESTC No. N12645. Grub Street ID 2637.

Printed for J. Ford

  • Chetwood, William Rufus. The voyages and adventures of Capt. Robert Boyle, who was taken into slavery ... with Mrs. Villars, an English lady, who was also in slavery with him. In which is interspersed, the history of Antonio Alvares, an Italian, who was also in slavery with them and The life and adventures of Don Pedro Aquilio. To which is added The voyage and shipwreck of Richard Castelinan ... with a description of Pensyvania [sic] and Philadelphia. London: printed for J. Ford and sold by S. Gamidge, 1772. ESTC No. N66745. Grub Street ID 48433.