Publications of Charles Davis

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 Charles Davis

  • Bradley, Richard. The riches of a hop-garden explain'd, from the several improvements arising by that beneficial plant: as well to the private cultivators of it, as to the publick. With the observations and remarks of the most celebrated hop-planters in Britain. Wherein such rules are lai down for the management of the hop, as may improve the most barren Ground, from one Shilling to thirty or forty Pounds an Acre per Annum. In which is particularly set forth, the whole Culture from the first breaking up of the Ground, the Planting, &c. to the Kilning, or Drying of the Hop. Rendred familiar to every Capacity. By R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S. London: printed for Charles Davis in Pater-Noster Row, and Thomas Green at Charing-Cross, MDCCXXIX. [1729]. ESTC No. T44951. Grub Street ID 273293.