Publications of the Society

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 the Society

  • Batley, Jeremiah. A letter to the Rev. Christopher Wyvill, chairman of the committee of the Yorkshire Association. By Jeremiah Batley, Esq. London: printed [for the Society for Constitutional Information] in the year, 1782. ESTC No. N19636. Grub Street ID 9055.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by the Society

  • James, Elinor. Mrs. James's reasons humbly presented to the Lords spiritual and temporal. Shewing why she is not willing, that at this time there should be any impeachments. London: printed and sold by the Society of Running-Stationers, 1715. ESTC No. T75107. Grub Street ID 297892.