Publications of R. Cruttwell:

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 and for, or by/for and sold by R. Cruttwell:

  • Keppel, Augustus Keppel. The trial of the Honourable Augustus Keppel, Admiral of the Blue Squadron, for a charge of misconduct and neglect of duty, exhibited against him by Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser. With an introduction, Including a Recapitulation of those Events that gave Rise to so extraordinary a Charge, with all the necessary Papers relative thereto. To which is added, a dictionary of all the sea terms used in the Course of the Work.Inscribed Admiral Montague. Bath: printed and sold by R. Cruttwell: sold also by C. Etherington, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London; and by all other booksellers in town and country, [1779?]. ESTC No. N13824. Grub Street ID 3723.