Publications of J. Esdall

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. Esdall

  • Budgell, Eustace. Memoirs of the lives and characters of the illustrious family of the Boyles. Containing, many curious pieces of English history, not extant in any other Author. The Whole extracted from Original Papers and Manuscripts. Also, an impartial account of the life, character and parliamentary conduct of the Right Honourable Henry Boyle, Esq; Speaker of the Hon. House of Commons, one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, and twelve Times sworn one of the Lords Justices of Ireland. Dedicated to his Grace the Duke of Dorset, &c. Dublin: printed and sold by J. Esdall, on Cork-Hill; J. Torbuck, at the Sign of Bristol in Sycamore-Alley; L. Flin, in Winetavern-Street, opposite Cook-Street; and by the booksellers, 1754. ESTC No. T111164. Grub Street ID 163598.