Publications of Richard Pierce

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 Richard Pierce

  • Ken, Thomas. An exposition on the church-catechism: or the practice of divine love. Composed for the Diocese of Bath & Wells. [Boston]: London, printed for Charles Brome, at the west-end of St. Paul's, and William Clarke in Winchester. 1685. Boston in New-England, reprinted by Richard Pierce, anno Domini MDCLXXXVIII. [1688]. ESTC No. R14136. Grub Street ID 62181.

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  • Pierce, Richard. A new and easy guide to the French language: Teaching how to read, pronounce, and write that polite tongue correctly, in a much shorter time than by any other method yet made public. Containing every thing necessary for attaining a perfect knowledge of the French tongue, exemplisied in the declination of nouns, and the entire conjugation of verbs, regular and irregular, in a fuller manner than any that has yet appeared; with proper phrases, dialogues, and gallicisms; adapted to the meanest capacities, approved of by several eminent masters, and now published for the use of schools. By Richard Pierce, late master of the academy in Burlington-Gardens. The fifth edition, with the addition of relative particles, and a vocabulary.. London: Printed for Hawes, Clarke, and Coliins, No. 32, in Pater-noster-Row, M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]. ESTC No. T225770. Grub Street ID 247541.