Publications of the present

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 the present

  • Carey, George Saville. The dupes of fancy, or every man his hobby; a new farce: in two acts. As performed at the King's Theatre-Royal in the Hay-Market, with great applause. By George Saville Carey, Esq. dedicated to Mrs. Jordan, and Embellished with a Portrait of that Celebrated Performer. London: printed for Alex. Hogg, at the King's Arms, No. 16, Pater-Noster-Row; and sold by T. Lewis. Great Russel Street, Covent Garden, and by all other booksellers and stationers in every city, borough, town, and village in Great Britain and Ireland. Of Whom may be had, gratis (just Published) Hogg's new catalogue of publications for the present Year, [1792]. ESTC No. T146901. Grub Street ID 193497.