Publications of W. Jonhston

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 and for, or by/for and sold by W. Jonhston

  • Pickering, Roger. An address to those who have either retired, or intend to leave the town, under the imaginary apprehension of the approaching shock of another earthquake: being the substance of a sermon delivered on the last Lord's-Day, the first of this instant April. By Roger Pickering, Pastor of the Church of Protestant Dissenters in Silver-Street, Lord's-Day Evening Lecturer at Salters-Hall, and Fellow of the Royal Society, London. London: printed and sold by W. Jonhston [sic], at the Golden Ball in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1750. ESTC No. T1295. Grub Street ID 178953.