Publications of John Foster

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 Foster

  • Life and death of the incomparable and indefatigable Tory, Redmond ô Hanlyn, commonly called Count Hanlyn: in a letter to Mr. R.A. in Dublin. [Dublin]: Printed for John Foster at the Kings-Arms in Skinner-Row, MDCLXXXII. [1682]. ESTC No. R216522. Grub Street ID 91406.

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

  • Mather, Increase. A brief history of the warr with the Indians in Nevv-England, (from June 24, 1675. when the first English-man was murdered by the Indians, to August 12. 1676. when Philip, aliàs Metacomet, the principal author and beginner of the warr, was slain.) Wherein the grounds, beginning, and progress of the warr, is summarily expressed. Together with a serious exhortation to the inhabitants of that land, by Increase Mather, teacher of a church of Christ, in Boston in New-England. Boston: printed and sold by John Foster over against the sign of the Dove, 1676. ESTC No. R15223. Grub Street ID 63179.

Author

  • Foster, John. Oratio habita Cantabrigi? in collegio regali Ivto Non. Februarias, die fundatoris memori? sacro. A Joanne Foster, Coll. Regal. Soc. et Academ. Scholar. Accedit etiam, ab eodem scriptum, carmen comitiale. Cantabrigiæ: typis academicis excudebat J. Bentham. Veneunt apud Gul. Thurlbourn, et T. Merrill, Cantabrigiæ; J. Whiston, et R. Dodsley, Londini; J. Fletcher, Oxon. et J. Pote, Eton?, M.DCC.LII. [1752]. ESTC No. T80833. Grub Street ID 301781.
  • Foster, John. Enarratio et comparatio doctrinarum moralium epicuri et stoicorum. Dissertatio, quae praemium, `a viris honoratissimis Ed. Finch, et Tho. Townshend, baccalaureis med. Cantabrig. propositum, retulit, in scholis publicis recitata Kal. Julii MDCCLIV. A Johanne Foster, A.M. Coll. Regal. Socio. Londini: Impensis Tho. Payne, Bibliopolae in vico Castle-street, apud quem prostat, MDCCLVIII. [1758]. ESTC No. T32639. Grub Street ID 263323.
  • Foster, John. An essay on the different nature of accent and quantity, with their use and Application in the pronunciation of the English, Latin, and Greek languages; containing an account and Explanation of the of the ancient tones, and a defence of the present system of Greek accentual marks, against the objections of Isaac Vossius, Henninius, Sarpedonius, Dr. G. And others. By John Foster, M.A. Late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Eton: printed by J Pote; sold also by T. Pote, in Fleetstreet; and T. Payne, next the Mews Gate near St. Martin's Lane, London, 1762. ESTC No. N170. Grub Street ID 6499.
  • Foster, John. An essay on the different nature of accent and quantity with their use and application in the English, Latin, and Greek languages: containing Remarks on the Metre of the English; on the origin and Aeolism of the Roman; on the general History of the Greek, with an account of its Antient Tones, and a defence of their present accentual marks. To which is subjoined the Greek elegiac poem of M. Musurus addressed to Leo X. With a Latin version and notes. The second edition, corrected and much enlarged. Containing some additions from the papers of Dr. Taylor and Mr. Markland. With a reply to Dr. G's. second dissertation in answer to the essay. By John Foster, M. A. Late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Eton: printed by J. Pote, MDCCLXIII. [1763]. ESTC No. N9384. Grub Street ID 54251.