Publications of the reporter

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 reporter

  • East India Company.. The debate at the East India House, on Friday, the 29th of May, 1795. On the several motions brought forward by Mr. Alderman Lushington, ... Reported by William Woodfall. London: printed by the reporter, and sold by J. Debrett; Murray, and Co. B. and J. White, and T. Chapman; R. Faulder; Egerton, [1795]. ESTC No. T140800. Grub Street ID 188477.

Printed for the reporter

  • Dallas, Alexander James. Reports of cases in the Supreme Court of the United States and in the circuit court for the district of Pennsylvania: with a selection from cases decided in the Federal Court of appeals, and in the State Courts of Pennsylvania. By A. J. Dallas. Volume I. [Three lines from Grotius]. Philadelphia: Printed for the reporter by J. Ormrod, 1799. ESTC No. W42298. Grub Street ID 352042.