Publications of J. Mechell

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. Mechell

  • Whatley, Robert. Judgment signed in the cause between the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, and Mr. Whatley; both Loyal Subjects of the same most gracious Sovereign, and Co-Members of the same Free, Civil, Christian Community. London: printed by J. Mechell at the King's-Arms in Fleet street, and sold by him, and by the booksellers, &c, 1740. ESTC No. T1965. Grub Street ID 229875.