Publications of John Swan

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 John Swan

  • Henderson, Andrew. Memoirs of Dr. Archibald Cameron, brother to the famous Donald Cameron of Lochiel. By Andrew Henderson, Author of the Edinburgh History of the Rebellion. London: printed for John Swan near Northumberland-House in the Strand; A. Millar in Westminster-Hall; and J. Robinson in Ludgate-Street, [1753]. ESTC No. T121338. Grub Street ID 172174.

Author

  • Swan, John. The authentick tryals at large of John Swan and Elizabeth Jeffryes, for the murder of the late Mr. Joseph Jeffryes, of Walthamstow. And of Henry Simons, a Polish Jew, on an indictment for assaulting James Ashley, ... Both try'd at the Lent assizes at Chelmsford, ... 1752. London: printed and sold by R. Walker, 1752. ESTC No. N16152. Grub Street ID 5835.