Publications of M. Richardson

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 M. Richardson

  • Thomas, S. The British negociator: or, Foreign exchanges made perfectly easy. Containing tables for all the various courses of exchange from, and the several coins equated of, Holland, Hamburgh, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Venice, Lechorn, Genoa, Denmark, Poland, Sweden, Russia, & Ireland. Together with tables and rules for exchanges, from Asia, Africa, and America, or the West-Indies: and the exchanges of the principal foreign nations with one another. Also, arbitrations of exchanges, in a new and concise method applicable to business. Likewise, the weights and measures of foreign nations. To which is annexed, several mercantile tables, equally useful to foreign traders and factors, and to inland merchants and dealers. And an essay on the nature and business of exchanging in general is prefixed, by way of introduction. The second edition, corrected and enlarged. By S. Thomas, merchant. London: Printed for M. Richardson; and L. Hawes and Co. in Pater-noster-Row; and T. Slacy in Newcastle, MDCCLXV. [1765]. ESTC No. N15706. Grub Street ID 5406.
  • Law, William. The spirit of love. Part the second. In dialogues. By William Law, M.A. The second edition.. London: printed for M. Richardson, 1765. ESTC No. N37346. Grub Street ID 25310.