Publications of the law-printers

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 the law-printers

  • Cunningham, T. A new and complete law-dictionary, or, General abridgment of the law: on a more extensive plan than any law-dictionary hitherto published: containing not only the explanation of the terms, but also the law itself, both with regard to theory and practice. very useful for barristers, justices of the peace, attornies, solicitors, &c. By T. Cunningham, Esq. In two volumes. . London: printed by the law-printers to the King's most excellent majesty; for S. Crowder, and J. Coote; and sold by Mr. Smith at Dublin, Mr. Jackson at Oxford, Mess. Fletcher and Hodson at Cambridge, Mr. Etherington at York, and all other booksellers in Great Britain and Ireland, 1764-65. ESTC No. T140761. Grub Street ID 188445.