Publications of John Barry

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 John Barry

  • Howe, John. The blessedness of the righteous opened: and further recommended from the consideration of the vanity of this mortal life: in two treatises, on Psal. xvii. 15. and lxxxix. 47. By John Howe, ... A new edition corrected: to which is added, a short account of the author's life. Glasgow: printed for John Barry and Alexander Carlile, 1742. ESTC No. N15211. Grub Street ID 4942.

Author

  • Barry, John. The most blessed and truest newes from Ireland, shewing, the fortunate successe of the Protestants, and Gods just vengance on the rebels. With a list of the Protestant commanders, and the chief of the rebels commanders, and the townes that the Protestants have relieved. With the humble petition of the baronets, esquires, ministers, gentlemen, freeholders, and others peaceably affected in the county Palatine of Lancaster, to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. With His Majesties answer thereunto. London: printed for T. W. and G. H., 1642. ESTC No. R2626. Grub Street ID 109597.
  • Barry, John. The Philadelphia spelling book, arranged upon a plan entirely new, adapted to the capacities of children, and designed as an immediate improvement in spelling and reading the English language. The whole being recommended by several eminent teachers, as the most useful performance to expedite the instruction of youth. By John Barry, master of the Free School of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph James, M,DCC,CXC. [1790]. ESTC No. W38917. Grub Street ID 349712.