Publications of Thomas Aris

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 Thomas Aris

  • Virgil. The fourth book of virgil's aeneid. In four cantos, with notes. London]: Printed by T. Aris, for the author, [1739?. ESTC No. N18811. Grub Street ID 8243.
  • An historical and chronological list of the painters. London: printed by Tho. Aris, for S. Harding, at the Bible and Anchor on the Payement in St. Martin's-Lane, [1740?]. ESTC No. T122441. Grub Street ID 173125.
  • The Birmingham gazette: or, the General correspondent. Birmingham [England]: printed by T[homas]. Aris, by whom advertisements are taken in. Books, bills, &c. are likewise printed in the neatest manner. ESTC No. P57. Grub Street ID 57508.
  • Thacker, Anthony. A miscellany of mathematical problems. In three volumes. By Anthony Thacker, Teacher of the Mathematicks at Birmingham Free-School. And the Author of the Ladies Diary. Vol.I. Containing, I. A New Method of solving Geometrical Problems: II. A Complete Treatise of Spherical Trigonometry, wherein each Case is solved as well by a neat Equation, to lay a Foundation for solving difficult Problems in Spherics, as by the Logarithms for common Purposes. III. A Collection of Spherical Problems. IV. Contains a Variety of unlimited Questions, and Diophantine Problems. V. The Solutions to the Questions in the Gentleman's and Ladies Diary, for the present Year 1743. Birmingham: printed by Thomas Aris, within two Doors of the Swan-Inn, M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]. ESTC No. T101231. Grub Street ID 155112.

Sold by Thomas Aris

  • Defoe, Daniel. A history of the lives and exploits of the most remarkable pirates, highwaymen, murderers, street-robbers, &c. Interspersed with several tales, and pleasant songs. Adorned with the effigies of the most notorious offenders, curiously engraven on copper. ... Birmingham: printed and sold by T. Aris, 1742. ESTC No. T190100. Grub Street ID 225348.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by Thomas Aris

  • Bentivolio.. The pernicious practice discover'd of selling our wool to foreigners, by a combin'd and current trade: and a scheme laid to prevent that evil. And a proposal for retrieving and establishing our woollen manufactures, ... By a disinterested and impartial gentleman. Birmingham: printed and sold by Thomas Aris; and also sold by M. Cooper, London, 1743. ESTC No. N60733. Grub Street ID 43731.