Publications of John Beatty

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 John Beatty

  • Beatty, John. Interesting facts respecting the loans and lotteries of the years of 1788 and 1789, submitted to the consideration of the public. (By J. Beatty.). Dublin: printed by John Beatty, 1789. ESTC No. T166884. Grub Street ID 205032.

Printed for John Beatty

  • Dodd, William. The trial of the Rev. Doctor Dodd, at the Old Bailey, on Saturday the 22d day of February, 1777, for forging a bond in the name of the Right Hon. Philip, Earl of Chesterfield, for 4200l. Taken in short hand, by a barrister. Dublin: printed for John Beatty and Christopher Jackson, [1777]. ESTC No. T195641. Grub Street ID 229272.