Publications of Two Centuries:

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 Two Centuries:

  • Rider, William. Rider's almanack: for the year of our Lord God M.DCC.LXXXV. Being The First After Bissextile or Leap Year, And the Twenty-Fifth of the Reign of His Present Majesty George The Third Adorned with many delightful and useful Verities. With Notes of Husbandry, Fairs, Marts, High Roads, And Tables for many necessary Uses. London: printed for T. Carnan, in St. Paul's Church Yard; who, after an expensive Suit in Law and Equity, by the Unanimous Opinion of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, dispossessed the Stationer's Company of their pretended exclusive Privilege of Printing. Almanacks, which they usurped for Two Centuries: A convincing Proof that no unjust Monopoly will ever stand the Test of an English Court of Justice, [1785]. ESTC No. T140004. Grub Street ID 187819.