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

  • Mather, Increase. The doctrine of divine providence, opened and applyed: also sundry sermons on several other subjects, by Increase Mather. Teacher of a church at Boston in New-England. Boston in New-Engiand [sic]: printed by Richard Pierce for Joseph Browning, and are to be sold at his shop at the corner of Prison-Lane next the Exchange, 1684. ESTC No. R14561. Grub Street ID 62577.

Author

  • Pierce, Richard. A new French spelling-book, in tables from one to eight syllables, with the true English to every word. In the gradual order of teaching, and due orthography; and practical lessons on the foregoing tables; to which are annexed the catechism, and prayers, &c. (proper for schools) intended chiefly for young beginners; 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 eighth edition.. London: printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, T. Lowndes, T. Longman, B. Law, G. Robinson, R. Baldwin, and J. Bew, MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]. ESTC No. T223073. Grub Street ID 245769.