Publications of B. &

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 B. &

  • County of Antrim. A list of persons to whom premiums for sowing flax-seed in the year 1796 have been adjudged by the Trustees of the Linen Manufacture. Pursuant to the scheme ... encouraging the growth of flax throughout the kingdom, viz. "To the person who should sow between the 10th day of March and the 1st day of June 1796, with a sufficient quantity of good sound flax-seed, any quantity of land, well prepared and fit for the purpose, not less than 1 acre - 4 spinning wheels, - 3 roods 3 ditto, ... And to the person who should sow in like manner any quantity of like land, not less than 5 acres, a loom, or wheels, reels, or hatchells to the value of 50 shillings, and for every 5 acres over and above the first five a like premium.". [Dublin: printed by B. & J. Williamson, 1796]. ESTC No. T192452. Grub Street ID 226944.

Sold by B. &

  • Philadelphia almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1800 ... Calculated for the states of Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware. (By Enoch Lewis.). Philadelphia: Printed and sold by B. & J. Johnson, no. 147, High-Street, [1799]. ESTC No. W32625. Grub Street ID 343132.

Printed for B. &

  • Pennant, Thomas. History of quadrupeds, the third edition. . London: printed for B. & J. White, Fleet street, MDCCXCIII. [1793]. ESTC No. T101486. Grub Street ID 155367.