Publications of John Babcock

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 John Babcock

  • Strong, Nehemiah. The connecticut pocket almanac, for the year of our Lord 1800: Being The Twenty-Fourth Of The Independence Of The United States. Containing, besides every necessary Astronomical Calculation, the Lawyer's and Justice's Calendar for the New-England States, and a greater variety of useful and entertaining matter than is commonly sound in Almanacs of this size. The calculations by Nehemiah Strong, Late Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Yale College. Hartford [Conn.]: printed by John Babcock, for E. & J. Babcock, [1799]. ESTC No. T135178. Grub Street ID 183660.