Publications of Mr. Ph.

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 Mr. Ph.

  • Trowell, Samuel. The best mine above ground; or, the most laudable and most certain means of enriching this nation, by improving our agriculture; and procuring the best manure yet invented, at the most reasonable Expence: Producing there-by extraordinary Plenty; affording full Employment for the Poor; and amply to reward the Industry of the Farmer. Recommended to the publick consideration; in a letter to a Member of Parliament, of Great Britain. Dublin: printed at London, and reprinted at Dublin, for Mr. Ph. Peck; who recommends the perusal thereof, to every nobleman, gentleman, and farmer, in this Kingdom, 1742. ESTC No. T11288. Grub Street ID 164833.