Publications of Pearson and

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 Pearson and

  • Marryat, Thomas. Therapeutics; or, the art of healing. By Thomas Marryat, M. D. Birmingham: printed by Pearson and Rollason; and sold by R. Baldwin, in Pater-Noster Row, London, MDCCLXXXV. [1785]. ESTC No. N14286. Grub Street ID 4165.

Sold by Pearson and

  • Cotes, John. Diaria Britannica; or, the British diary. Being an almanack, for the year of our Lord 1788 ... the first almanack published of this kind. Birmingham: printed and sold by Pearson and Rollason, [1788]. ESTC No. N55295. Grub Street ID 38818.

Printed for Pearson and

  • A collection of psalms and hymns, for public and family worship. By the Rev. J. Glazebrook, ... Warrington: printed by W. Eyres, for Pearson and Rolaston, Birmingham, and J. Johnson, London, 1786. ESTC No. T209552. Grub Street ID 238100.