Publications of the author

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 the author

  • Taylor, William. A complete system of practical arithmetic, with various branches in the mathematics. The second edition. By William Taylor, Teacher of the Mathematics, and Land Surveyor, author of a collection of tables for the use of his Majesty's officers of excise; the arithmetician's guide; key to the arithmetician's guide; the measurer's assistant; the tradesman's correct ready reckoner; a treatise of chronology; correct tables of discount, &c. &c. Birmingham: printed and sold by the author, No. 15, Spiceal-Street, T.A. Pearson and the other booksellers; also by Messrs, Crosby & Letterman; and Champante & Whitrow, Jewry-Street, Aldgate, London, 1800. ESTC No. T53214. Grub Street ID 280199.

Sold by the author

  • Ruddiman, Thomas. The rudiments of the Latin tongue; or a plain and easy introduction to Latin grammar; Wherein The Principles of the Language are Methodically digested both in English and Latin: with useful notes and observations, explaining the terms of grammar, and further improving its rules. By Tho. Ruddiman, M.A. Edinburgh: printed and sold by the author, and the booksellers there, M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]. ESTC No. N12860. Grub Street ID 2834.

Printed for the author

  • Jeffreys, George. Miscellanies, in verse and prose. By George Jeffreys, Esq;. London: printed for the author, MDCCLIV. [1754]. ESTC No. N10051. Grub Street ID 63.