Publications of Thomas Parker

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 Thomas Parker

  • The British telescope: Being an ephemeris of the coelestial motions. With an almanack for the year of our Lord 1741, of the Julian period 6454. And the first after bissextile or leap-year. Containing both the heliocentrick and geocentrick motions of the planets, together with their latitudes and aspects, both mutual and lunar. Amplify'd with astrological observations upon the four quarters of the year; the eclipses of the sun, together with those of Jupiter's four satellites; and other material configurations of the planets; being furnished with diverse useful tables, too numerous to be here specified, and all other necessaries fit and commodious for such a work. Calculated according to art, and referred to the meridian of London, metropolis of Great-Britain, but to the latitude of 53 degrees, north, from new tables never yet published; which are so correct and fit for navigation, that the longitude by help thereof may be discovered to one degree. The nineteenth impression. By Edmund We. L]ondon: Printed by T. Parker, for the Company of Stationers, [1741. ESTC No. T55806. Grub Street ID 282372.
  • Smith, Joseph. A clear and comprehensive view of the being, nature, and attributes of God, form'd, not only upon the authority of the holy scriptures, but the solid reasonings and testimonies of the best authors, ... By an orthodox divine. London: printed by Thomas Parker, for the author, and sold by J. Jackson, 1754. ESTC No. T64414. Grub Street ID 289449.
  • Roe, Stephen. The ordinary of Newgate's account of the behaviour, confession, and dying words of Capt. Joseph Halsey, who was executed at Execution-Dock, on Wednesday the fourteenth of March, 1759, for the murder of Daniel Davidson. London: printed by T. Parker, in Jewin-Street, for the author; and sold by M. Cooper, in Pater-Noster Row, M.DCCLIX. [1759]. ESTC No. N13054. Grub Street ID 3001.

Printed for Thomas Parker

  • Simms, Henry. The life of Henry Simms, alias young gentleman Harry. From his birth, to his death at Tyburn, on Wednesday June 17, 1747. ... All wrote by himself while under sentence of death in Newgate. London: printed for Tho. Parker, and C. Corbett; the only authorised printers of the dying-speeches, 1747. ESTC No. T96748. Grub Street ID 316194.
  • Lowrey, James. The only genuine and authentic narrative of the proceedings of the late Capt. James Lowrey Both Before and after he became Commander of the Ship Molly: as the same was delivered by himself, in manuscript, into the hands of the Revd Mr. Taylor, Ordinary of Newgate, some short Time before his Execution. The second edition.. London: printed only for Thomas Parker, in Jewin-Street, and C. Corbett, in Fleet-Street, [1752?]. ESTC No. T1074. Grub Street ID 160420.