Publications of J. Imison

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. Imison

  • Smith, William. The history of the lives, acts, and martyrdoms of those blessed Christians, who were cotemporary with, or immediately succeeded the apostles. As also the most eminent fathers of the primitive church, who professed and suffered for the Christian Faith, for some Hundred of Years after the Death of our Lord and Saviour: collected from sacred writ, and the records of antiquity. With cuts of the several ways by which they were put to death by their bloody Persecutors. And an elegant Frontispiece, representing Christ recommending a Religious Life. Manchester: printed by J. Imison, Black Swan-Yard, Smithy-Door, M.DCC,LXXXV. [1785]. ESTC No. T105383. Grub Street ID 158697.