Publications of John Nicholson

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 John Nicholson

  • Rules and orders to be observed by the members of the Sociable Society, commenced the fifth day of October 1782, at the house of Jeremiah Fieldhouse, the Wheat Sheaf, Bowling, Yorkshire. Bradford: printed by John Nicholson and Son, [1782]. ESTC No. T189481. Grub Street ID 224951.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by John Nicholson

  • Medley, Samuel. Hymns. By the Rev. Mr. Medley. Bradford: printed and sold by John Nicholson and Son; and sold also by J. Buckland, London, 1785. ESTC No. T230146. Grub Street ID 249907.