Publications of Performing the

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 Performing the

  • Young, William. Manoeuvres, or practical observations on the art of war: containing, Vol. I. 1. The manual exercise. 2. An essay on the command of small detachments. 3. A new system of fortification, by making use of Standing Timber, &c. And General Wolfe's instructions to young officers. Vol. II. 1. Manouvres for a battalion of infantry. 2. Manouvres for a battalion, and brigade of infantry. 3. Manouvres in general, with a short Table, containing above two hundred and forty different Movements. With 62 copper-plates. By Major William Young. London: printed for J. Millan, Bookseller, near Whitehall: Where may be had Sets of small Platoons in Ivory or Wood, for Performing the Manoeuvres, [1776?]. ESTC No. N10354. Grub Street ID 363.