Publications of J. Holl

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 J. Holl

  • Langford, William. A sermon, for the relief of the widows and orphans of clergymen, belonging to the three dioceses of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester, preached in the Cathedral, at Worcester, Before their Majesties, At the Music-Meeting, on Wednesday, Aug.6, 1788, by W. Langford, D. D. Canon of Windsor, and Chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty. Worcester: printed by J. Holl, in the High-Street. Sold also by R. Faulder, New Bond-Street; J. Bew, Paternoster-Row; H. Gardner [London], Strand: and M. Swinney, Birmingham, M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]. ESTC No. T141504. Grub Street ID 189021.
  • Cooksey, Richard. Essay on the life and character of John Lord Somers, Baron of Evesham: also sketches of an essay on the life and character of Philip Earl of Hardwicke. Proposed to be inserted in a Compendious History of Worcestershire. By Richard Cooksey, Esq. of the inner Temple. Worcester: printed by J. Holl; (for the author.) And sold by J. Bew, Paternoster-Row; J. Richardson, under the Royal Exchange; J. Walter, Piccadilly; H. Gardner, and W. Brown, Strand; London, M.DCC.XCI. [1791]. ESTC No. T57526. Grub Street ID 283807.

Sold by J. Holl

  • Johnstone, James. A second dialogue of the dead: between Ferdinand Cortez and William Penn. To which is added, a scheme, for the abolition of slavery, without injury to trade and navigation. Worcester: printed and sold by J. Holl, 1789. ESTC No. T144448. Grub Street ID 191319.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by J. Holl

  • British loyalty; or, a squeeze for St. Paul's. A poem. With a prefatory address; contrasting the situation of the royal family of France with that of Great-Britain; and a particular allusion to the royal visit to the city of Worcester, at the meeting for the benefit of the widows and orphans of clergymen. To which is added, that much-admired ode ... by ... Robert Burns ... Worcester: printed and sold by J. Holl; sold also by J. Bew; W. Gardner, London: and M. Swinney, Birmingham, 1789. ESTC No. T166780. Grub Street ID 204936.