Publications of Alexander Lyon

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 Alexander Lyon

  • Voltaire. The history of Charles XII. King of Sweden. By Mr. de Voltaire. Translated from the French. London: printed for Alexander Lyon in Great Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, MDCCXXXII. [1732]. ESTC No. T137889. Grub Street ID 185781.
  • Rowe, Jacob. All sorts of wheel-carriage, improved. Wherein it is plainly made appear, that a much less than the usual draught of horses, &c. will be requir'd, in waggons, carts, coaches, and all other wheel vehicles, as likewise all water-mills, wind-mills and horse-mills. This method being found good in practice, by the trial of a coach and cart already made, shews of what great advantage it may be to all farmers, carriers, masons, miners, &c. and to the publick in general, by saving them one half of the expences they are now at in the draught of these vehicles, according to the common method. The whole illustrated with copper plates. And an explanation of the structure of a coach and cart, according to this method, by Jacob Rowe, Esq;. London: printed for Alexander Lyon under Tom's Coffee-house in Russel-Street Covent Garden, MDCCXXXIV. [1734]. ESTC No. T95742. Grub Street ID 315240.

Author

  • Lyon, Alexander. A catalogue of scarce and valuable books lately imported from France, by Alexander Lyon. ... to be sold ... on Tuesday the 4th day of March 1735. London: printed in the year, 1735. ESTC No. T13653. Grub Street ID 184735.