Publications of Old Lady

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 Old Lady

  • Trenchard, John. Standing armies standing evils, and prov'd to be foreign to the nature, spirit, and genius of the old English constitution, and absolutely contrary to the principles of the famous revolution, and the liberties of mankind. Written by that divine patriot John Trenchard, Esq; and now revis'd, &c. by an eminent hand. To which is added, the Englishmans prayer, address'd to that worthy patriot prince whose name and fame will shine throughout the earth. Published at the request of some persons of distinction, and several members of Parliament. London: Printed by T. Fr... for old Lady England, near the Wooden ... and Halbert in Marshals Court, Duke's, place, 1749. ESTC No. T160442. Grub Street ID 199907.