Publications of Barker and

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 Barker and

  • A catalogue of the valuable, extensive, and entire collection of natural history, comprising the most choice and curious specimens of shells, corals, ores ... of the late George Keate, Esq. ... Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. King, at his Great Room, King Street, Covent Garden, on Monday, April 5, and eleven following days, at twelve o'clock. May be viewed on Thursday, April 1, till the sale, and catalogues, price 1s. had at the room. London]: Printed by Barker and Son, [1800?. ESTC No. N68388. Grub Street ID 49792.

Printed for Barker and

  • Cumberland, Richard. The brothers, a comedy, in five acts. As performed at the Theatres-Royal. By Richard Cumberland, Esq. A new edition.. London: printed for Barker and Son, [1790?]. ESTC No. N15731. Grub Street ID 5432.