Publications of Messrs. I.

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 Messrs. I.

  • Beatson, Robert. An essay on the comparative advantages of vertical and horizontal wind-mills: containing A description of an horizontal Wind-Mill and Water-Mill, upon a new construction; and explaining the manner of applying the same principle to pumps, sluices, methods for moving boats or vessels, &c. &c. With Plates. By Robert Beatson, Esq. F.R.S.E. Honorary Member of the Board of Agriculture, Member of the Society of London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and of the Royal Highland Society of Scotland, and late of his Majesty's Corps of Royal Engineers. London: printed for Messrs. I. and J. Taylor, Holborn; G. G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row; Richardson, Royal Exchange; Murray and Highley, Fleet-Street; J. Wright, Piccadilly; E. Newbery, corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard: P. Hill, Edinburgh; R. Crutwell, Bath; and sold by all other booksellers in town and country, 1798. ESTC No. T12232. Grub Street ID 173034.