Publications of Jonas Davis?

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 Jonas Davis?

  • Hutton, Charles. A supplement to The ladies' diary, for the year 1788. Containing a list of all the enigmas, from the beginning of that work in the year 1704; also several additional Answers to the Enigmas, &c, proposed last Year, and some new Enigmas and Charades to be answered next Year, for which there was not room in the Diary itself. (price Six-Pence.) By the Diary author. London: printed by Jonas Davis?, 1787. ESTC No. T155390. Grub Street ID 199173.