Publications of George Spavan

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 for George Spavan

  • Gentleman, in the Retinue of His Excellency the Earl of Kinnoul. Letters historical and critical, from a gentleman in Constantinople to his friend in London. Giving an account of ... that city; ... By a gentleman, in the retinue of His Excellency the Earl of Kinnoul, his Britannick Majesty's ambassador to the Grand Seignior. London: printed for George Spavan, 1735. ESTC No. N34154. Grub Street ID 22571.
  • Barber, Rev. James, M.A.. The law-Suit: or the farmer and fisherman. A poem. In which is contained, the polite speech of the chairman of a bench of justices at a country quarter-sessions, and the various artifices made use of in the several courts of judicature. Wrote for the benefit of unhappy clients, and humbly inscribed to the gentlemen of the faculty. London: printed for G. Spavan, next Door to the Feathers Tavern. over-against St. Clement's-Church in the Strand; and sold at the pamphlet-shops of London and Westminster, 1738. ESTC No. N10426. Grub Street ID 436.
  • Barber, Rev. James, M.A.. Tom K----g's: or, the Paphian grove. With the various humours of Covent Garden, the theatre, The Gaming-Table, &c. A Mock-Heroic-Poem, in three cantos. The second edition. To which is added, a dedication to Mrs. K----g, and the Author's Apology to such Gentlemen as think themselves personally reflected on in this Poem. London: printed for John Torbuck, in Clare-Court near Drury-Lane; J. Robinson, the Corner of Moiden-Lane, in Southampton-Street, Covent-Garden; G. Spavan, next the Feathers Tavern against St. Clement's-Church in the Strand; and sold at the pamphlet shops, at the Royal-Exchange, Temple-Bar, and Charing-Cross, [1738]. ESTC No. T87097. Grub Street ID 307180.