Publications of Thomas Farmer

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 Farmer

  • Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford. Anecdotes of painting in England; With some account of the principal artists; and incidental notes on other arts; collected by the late Mr. George Vertue; and now digested and published from his original MSS. by Mr. Horace Walpole. ... [Twickenham]: Printed by Thomas Farmer at Strawberry-Hill, 1762-71 [i.e.1780]. ESTC No. T71274. Grub Street ID 294848.

Author

  • Farmer, Thomas. [A consort of musick in four parts containing thirty three lessons, beginning with an overture.]. London: sold by H. Playford, near the Temple Church; and at the author's house in Martlet Court, in Bow street, Covent Garden, 1686. ESTC No. R176959. Grub Street ID 69262.