Publications of J. Hollis

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 J. Hollis

  • Defoe, Daniel. The history and lives of all the most notorious pirates, and their crews; from Captain Avery, who first settled at Madagascar, to Captain John Gow, and James Williams, his Lieutenant, &c. who were hanged at Execution Dock, on June 11, 1725, for piracy and murder, and afterwards hung in chains between Blackwall and Deptford; and of several others, down to the year 1735. Giving a more full and true account than any yet published, of all their murders, piracies, maroonings, places of refuge, and ways of living. To which is prefixed, an abstract of the laws against piracy. A new edition: adorned with twenty-one beautiful cuts, being the representation of each pirate.. London: printed and sold by J. Hollis, No. 21, Shoemaker-Row, Black-Friars, [1790?]. ESTC No. N17447. Grub Street ID 6915.