Publications of the Dial

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 the Dial

  • Hutchinson, Francis. The life of the Most Reverend Father in God John Tillotson, Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. Compiled from the minutes of the Reverend Mr. Young, late Dean of Salisbury. By F.H. M.A. With many curious memoirs communicated by the late Right Reverend Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum. London: Printed for E. Curll at the Dial and Bible against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet; W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row; and J. Osborn at the Oxford Arms in Lombard-Street, [1717]. ESTC No. T129672. Grub Street ID 179079.