Publications of Johu [sic]

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 Johu [sic]

  • Bob Booty's lost deal, or, the cards shuffled fair at last. London: printed by Johu [sic] Jones, [1742]. ESTC No. T22936. Grub Street ID 249307.

Printed for Johu [sic]

  • Lenthall, William. Mr. Speakers speech before His Majestie, and both the Houses of Parliament, after his returne from Scotland, upon passing the Bill for Tunnage and Poundage, on Thursday the 2. of December. Relating the present distempers of England and Ireland. Also, the Kings most excellent Majestie's speech to the honourable House of Parliament, the same Thursday Decemb. 2. 1641. London: printed for Johu [sic] Greensmith, 1641. ESTC No. R30932. Grub Street ID 113773.