Publications of George Dawes

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 George Dawes

  • Coke, Edward. An exact abridgment in English, of the eleven books of reports of the learned Sir Edward Cook, Knight, late Lord Chief Justice of England, and of the Council of Estate to his Majesty, King James. Composed by the judicious Sir Thomas Ireland, Knight, late of Grayes-Inne, and an ancient reader of that honorable society. Wherein is briefly contained the very substance and marrow of all those reports, together with the resolutions on every case. Also a perfect table for the finding of the names of all those cases, and the principal matters therein contained. Very useful for all men, especially the students and practisers of that honorable profession. The third impression.. London: printed for George Dawes over against Lincolns-Inne Gate in Chancery Lane, 1666. ESTC No. R174018. Grub Street ID 67330.