Publications of J. Reeves:

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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 J. Reeves:

  • Ellis, William. The complete planter and cyderist: Or, a New Method of Planting Cyder-Apple, and Perry-Pear-Trees; and the Most approved Ways of Making Cyder. In two parts. Part I. Shewing, among other Particulars, how thousands of Acres on the Sides of barren Hills and other waste Grounds, may be converted into fruitful Orchards at a small Expence. How Apple and Pear Trees may be made to grow to Perfection in half the usual Time. How to manage an Orchard that it shall never miss bearing, &c. Part II. How to make Cyder and Perry various Ways, as practised in Devonshire and Herefordshire, &c. How to distil Cyder Spirits; with a Proposal for making a strong bodied Cyder, as a noble Antiscorbutic for the Service of his Majesty's Navy, &c. By William Ellis, Of Little-Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, Author of several Treatises on Husbandry, &c. London: printed for J. Reeves: and sold by T. Field, at the Wheat-Sheaf, the Corner of Pater-Noster Row in Cheapside, MDCCLVI. [1756]. ESTC No. T162679. Grub Street ID 201396.