Publications of the executor

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 the executor

  • Acts and statutes, made in a Parliament begun at Dublin, the twenty eighth day of November, ... 1727, ... And further continued ... until the seventh day of October, 1755. Being the fifteenth session of this present Parliament. Dublin: printed by the executor of George Abraham Grierson, 1756. ESTC No. N15961. Grub Street ID 5662.

Printed for the executor

  • Warburton, William. The divine legation of Moses demonstrated, on the principles of a religious deist, from the omission of the doctrine of a future state of reward and punishment in the Jewish dispensation. In nine books. ... The third edition, corrected and enlarged. By William Warburton, . London: printed for the executor of the late Mr. Fletcher Gyles, 1742. ESTC No. N65722. Grub Street ID 47546.