Publications of James Mechell

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 James Mechell

  • Mascov, Johann Jakob. The history of the ancient Germans; including that of the Cimbri, Suevi, Alemanni, Franks, Saxons, Goths, Vandals, and other ancient northern nations, who overthrew the Roman Empire, and establish'd that of Germany, and most of the kingdoms of Europe. Written originally in high German; and illustrated with notes and quotations, from ancient authors, accounts of monuments, inscriptions, medals, coins, and other antiquities, by Doctor John Jacob Mascou, Aulick Counsellor to the King of Poland, Assessor of the Court of Justice, and Senator of the city of Leipzick, in Saxony. Now translated into English, by Thomas Lediard, Esq; late Secretary to His Majesty's envoy extraordinary in lower Germany. London and Westminster: printed and sold by James Mechell, at the Kings Arms, in Fleet-Street; and to be had at the Translater's House, in Smith's-Square, Westminster; of Innys and near St. Paul's; Wilcox and Payne, in the Strand; Bettesworth and Hitch, in Pater-noster-Row; Curl, in Covent-Garden; Millan, at Whitehall; Willock, in Cornhill; and Brett, in Westminster-Hall, 1738. ESTC No. T151994. Grub Street ID 197089.