Publications of His Majesty's Law Printers
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:
- "printed by x"; or
- "sold by x"; or
- "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,":
- "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 His Majesty's Law Printers
- Jacob, Giles. A law grammar; or rudiments of the law: compiled from the grounds, principles, Maxims, Terms, Words of Art, Rules, and Moot-Points of our law, in a new, easy and very concise method. For the particular Instruction Of all young Gentlemen, either at Schools, Colleges, or the Universities, or privately educated, Attorneys Clerks, and other Persons; Whereby they will acquire a great deal more useful Learning in the Law, than by any of the Books yet published. By Giles Jacob, Gent. Author of the Law Dictionary. The fourth edition carefully revised, with additions.. London: printed by His Majesty's Law-Printers, for H. Woodfall and W. Strahan, P. Uriel at the Inner Temple Gate, and T. Caslon near Stationers Hall, 1767. ESTC No. N10268. Grub Street ID 271.