Publications of the Unclaimed

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 Unclaimed

  • Bank of England.. The names and descriptions of the proprietors of unclaimed dividends on bank stock, and on the public funds, transferable at the Bank of England, which became due between 31st December 1780, and the 31st of December, 1788, and remained unpaid on the 21st October 1791, with the dates when the first dividends respectively became payable, and the number of dividends due. In which is included the names of all such proprietors as are possessed of stock on which farther dividends have accrued since the last publication. By order of the Court Of Directors of the Bank of England. London: printed for Francis Walsh, of the Unclaimed Dividend office at the Bank, and sold by Hughes and Walsh, stationers, Inner-Temple-Lane; Welles, Grosvenor, and Chater, Cornhill; H.D. Symonds, Pater-Noster-Row; J. Edwards, No. 17, Conduit-street, Hanover-Square; and J. Blackbourn, at the Stock Exchange. Where may be had former list of unclaimed dividends to the year 1789, [1791]. ESTC No. T131124. Grub Street ID 180169.