Publications of G. Johnston

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 G. Johnston

  • Marchant, John. A review of the bloody tribunal; or the horrid cruelties of the Inquisition, as practised in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and the East and West-Indies, On all those whom the Church of Rome brands with the Name of Hereticks. Containing A Description of the most dreadful and exquisite Tortures on the several Persons who have unhappily fallen into the Hands of those Tyrants over Mens Consciences, the Jesuits and Popish Priests: By John Marchant, Gentleman, and others, &c. Perth: printed and sold by G. Johnston, the publisher, where subscribers may call for their copies, 1770. ESTC No. T122617. Grub Street ID 173281.