Publications of J. Sketchley

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. Sketchley

  • The merry miscellany: or, humourous companion. Containing a most agreeable variety of drollery, (viz.) Remarkable Jests, Smart Repartees, Excellent Humbuggs, Pleasant Stories, Strange Adventures, Comical Quibbles, Irish Bulls, English Proverbs, &c. Collected from the most Sprightly Wit's of of the last and present Age; without any Mixture of Insipid Tales, Bare Jests, and Insignificant Stories; a great part of which Work never yet appear'd before. Bristol: printed by J. Sketchley, [1775?]. ESTC No. T117954. Grub Street ID 169523.

Printed for J. Sketchley

  • Wilkes, John. The life and political writings of John Wilkes, Esq; Four Times Elected Knight of the Shire for the County of Middlesex, and Alderman Elect of the Ward of Farringdon without, London. Birmingham: printed for J. Sketchley and Co., M,DCC,LXIX. [1769]. ESTC No. T110423. Grub Street ID 162954.