Publications of Lowndes in

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 Lowndes in

  • Metastasio, Pietro. Artaxerxes. An English opera. As it is performed at the Theatres Royal in Drury-Lane, and Covent-Garden. The musick composed by Tho. Aug. Arne, Mus. Doc. A new edition.. London: printed for T. Lowndes in Fleet-Street and J. Condell in Broad-Court Long Acre. Note, This Opera is, agreeable to Act of Parliament entered in the Hall Book of the Company of Stationers, & whoever Presumes to Print it, will be Prosecuted. The Proprietors will reward any one who will give Information of such Proceedings. P.1, [1780?]. ESTC No. T131891. Grub Street ID 180856.