Publications of Edward Dilly

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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 Edward Dilly

  • Thomson, James. The seasons. By James Thomson. To which is added, Anode, on the Death of Mr Thomson, By Mr Collins. London: printed by E. Dilly Bookseller in the Strand, M'dcc'lxxxiii. [1783]. ESTC No. T61881. Grub Street ID 287491.

Sold by Edward Dilly

  • Harwood, Edward. Reflections on the unacceptableness of a death-bed repentance. By E. Harwood. The second edition, with additions.. London: printed by Samuel Chandler; and sold by J. Waugh; T. Field; E. Dilly; C. Henderson; W. Flexney; and T. Anderton, in Manchester, 1763. ESTC No. N22118. Grub Street ID 11481.

Printed for Edward Dilly

  • Paraphrase, or, large explicatory poem upon the Song of Solomon. Wherein the mutual love of Christ and his Church, contained in that Old-Testament song, is imitated in the language of the New Testament, and adapted to the Gospel-Dispensation. By the late Reverend Ralph Erskine, M. A. Minister of the Gospel at Dumfermlin, and author of the Gospel sonnets. A new edition revised and corrected.. London: printed for Edward Dilly at the Rose and Crown in the Poultry, near the Mansion-House, MDCCLVIII. [1758]. ESTC No. T125245. Grub Street ID 175394.
  • Bostwick, David. Self disclaimed, and Christ exalted: a sermon preached at Philadelphia, before the Reverend synod of New-York, May 25, 1758. By David Bostwick, A. M. Minister of the Presbyterian Church in New-York. Published at the Request of the Members of the Synod. London]: Philadelphia printed. London reprinted, for E. Dilly at the Rose and Crown in the Poultry, MDCCLIX. [1759. ESTC No. T104713. Grub Street ID 158218.
  • Winter, Richard. An earnest exhortation to persevere in prayer and thanksgiving on the nation's account. In a sermon preached, Feb. 18th, 1759. By Richard Winter. London: printed for Edw. Dilly; T. Field; and J. Buckland, 1759. ESTC No. N26491. Grub Street ID 15862.
  • A practical exposition of the four Evangelists, in the form of a paraphrase: with occasional notes ... and serious recollections ... By John Guyse, D.D. The second edition, corrected.. London: printed for Edward Dilly, 1760-61. ESTC No. N21094. Grub Street ID 10484.
  • Cudworth, William. A defence of Theron and Aspasio, against the objections contained in a late treatise, entitled, Letters on Theron and Aspasio. To which is prefix'd, a series of letters from the late Rev. Mr. James Hervey, to the author, authenticating this defence with his intire approbation, ... The second edition. To which is added, a farther defence of Theron and Aspasio, against the objections of Mr. Joseph Bellamy ... in his treatise entitled, Theron, Paulinus, and Aspasio. ... The whole forming a necessary supplement to Mr. Hervey's dialogues. London: printed for E. Dilly; and J. Coote, 1761. ESTC No. N374. Grub Street ID 25357.
  • Boston, Thomas. Human nature, in its four-fold state; of primitive integrity, entire depravation, begun recovery, and consummate happiness or misery. Subsisting in the parents of mankind in paradise; the irregenerate; the regenerate; all mankind in the future state. In several practical discourses. By ... Mr. Thomas Boston, . The fifteenth edition carefully corrected and revised.. London: printed for E. Dilly, 1761. ESTC No. N17318. Grub Street ID 6786.
  • Justice and policy. An essay on the increasing growth and enormities of our great cities. ... Also a descant on the present state of the nation in regard to America, ... Addressed to a noble peer. By a freeholder in Ireland, and stockholder in England. Part II. London: printed for Mess. Dilly, Millan, Payne, Wilkie, Marks, Evans, Johnston, Crutwell, &c., 1774. ESTC No. T199369. Grub Street ID 231514.