Publications of J. Lechem

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 J. Lechem

  • The trial of the Hon' R------d N----s, commander of one of His Majesty's ships, for perjury, fraud, and cowardice, before the Right Honourable the Lord Wiseacre; and the pleadings for the prisoner by Mr Serjeant Fullbottom. To which is prefix'd, an oration at the opening of the cause, by Mr Serjeant Fullbottom, in imitation of the late Judge P-ge. Taken in short hand by order of the court. London: printed for J. Lechem in Fleet-Street [1745]. ESTC No. N13823. Grub Street ID 3722.