Publications of the London

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 London

  • Hawles, John. The Englishman's right: a dialogue, between a barrister at law and a juryman; plainly setting forth, I. The antiquity, II. The excellent designed use, III. The office, and just privileges, of juries, by the law of England. By Sir John Hawles, . London]: Re-printed by the London Corresponding Society, 1793, and sold by J. Ridgeway; D. I. Eaton; H. D. Symonds; Thomas Spence; J. Lambeth; C. Rickman, [1793. ESTC No. T107621. Grub Street ID 160636.

Printed for the London

  • Dawson, Thomas. Good advice: in a letter to a friend, concerning the modern way of free-thinking. With a postscript Containing Some Remarks on the Rise and Progress of Free-Thinking; As also a seasonable Caution to young Divines and others, in Reading Dr. Clark's Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity; Shewing the most notorious Insincerity, in his Quotations from the Ancient Writers of the Christian Church, in order to Propagate an old Heresy, which that Author reviv'd. London: printed for J. Chrichley, at the London Gazette, near Charing-Cross; and sold by J. Roberts, at the Oxford-Arms, in Warwick-Lane, [1731]. ESTC No. T103644. Grub Street ID 157261.