Publications of Alexander Alison

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 Alexander Alison

  • Whitefield, George. The indwelling of the Spirit, the common privilege of all believers. A sermon preached at the parish-church of Bexly in Kent, on Whitsunday, 1739. By George Whitefield, ... [Edinburgh]: London printed, and Edinburgh, re-printed by Alexander Alison and John Trail, and sold at his shop in the Parliament-Closs, 1739. ESTC No. N16920. Grub Street ID 6421.

Sold by Alexander Alison

  • Waller, William. Divine meditations upon several occasions, with a daily directory. By a person of honour. Edinburgh: printed and sold by Alexander Alison and by Mrs. Davidson and Trail, and Gideon Crawford, 1737. ESTC No. T185217. Grub Street ID 221447.