Publications of a friend

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 a friend

  • Brutus.. The political monitor: exhibiting the present state of affairs in Ireland; with some genuine anecdotes, tending to shew the real characters of several statesmen, and other eminent personages. In a series of letters, first published in the Freeman's Journal, under the signature of Brutus; now republished, at the desire of several citizens of Dublin. Dublin: printed by a friend to Ireland, and sold by the news hawkers, 1772. ESTC No. N53829. Grub Street ID 37716.

Printed for a friend

  • De Laune, Thomas. A plea for the non-conformists: shewing the true state of their case: And how far the Conformist's Separation from the Church of Rome, for their Popish Superstitions, &c. introduc'd into the Service of God, justifies the Non-Conformist's Separation from them. In a letter to Dr. Benjamin Calamy, on his Sermon (call'd Scrupulous Conscience) inviting hereto. To which is added, a parallel scheme of the pagan, papal, and Christian rites and ceremonies: and a narrative of the sufferings underwent by Thomas De Laune. With a preface by the author of the Review. London: printed for a friend of the author, and sold by A. Bettesworth, at the Red Lyon on London-Bridge, 1712. ESTC No. N20026. Grub Street ID 9447.