Publications of the authority

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 the authority

  • Canning, Elizabeth. The trial of Elizabeth Canning, spinster, for wilful and corrupt perjury; at Justice Hall in the Old-Bailey, held by adjournment, on Monday the 29th of April, Wednesday the 1st, Friday the 3d, Saturday the 4th, Monday the 6th, Tuesday the 7th, and Wednesday the 8th of May, 1754. Before the Right Honourable Thomas Rawlinson, Esq; Lord-Mayor of the City of London, Sir Edward Clive, Knt. one of the Justices of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, The Honourable Heneage Legge, Esq; one of the Barons of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer, William Moreton, Esq; Recorder, and others the Justices, &c. Taken in short-hand, by Thomas Gurney, Samuel Rudd and Isaac Harman, all eminent short-hand writers, appointed by the Court for that purpose, and after being carefully examined together, and faithfully transcribed by the said Thomas Gurney, many years short-hand writer at the said Court. London: printed by the authority and appointment of the Right Honourable Thomas Rawlinson, Esq; Lord Mayor, for John Clarke under the Royal Exchange, and sold also by M. Cooper in Pater-Noster Row, [1754]. ESTC No. T102303. Grub Street ID 156143.