Publications of art and

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 art and

  • Cadogan, William Bromley. The love of Christ the portion and principle of the children of God. Proved in a sermon preached in the parish church of St. Giles, in Reading, On Sunday, December the 4th, 1785. Upon the death of Mrs. Talbot, Relict of the Rev. William Talbot, late Vicar of the said Church. By William Bromley Cadogan, M. A. Rector of St. Luke's, Chelsea, and of St. Giles's, Reading. And Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Lord Cadogan. Reading: printed by A. M. Smart and T. Cowslade; and sold by J. F. and C. Rivingtons; G. G. J. and J. Robinsons; and J. Mathews, London: and J. Fletcher, Oxford, [1785]. ESTC No. T106813. Grub Street ID 159908.