Publications of J. Clarke

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 J. Clarke

  • Original miscellaneous poems. Stockport: printed by J. Clarke, for the Author, MDCCLXXXX. [1790]. ESTC No. T54026. Grub Street ID 280901.
  • Cheetham, Robert Farren. Odes and miscellanies by Robert Farren Cheetham. Stockport: printed by J. Clarke. Sold by Champante and Whitrow, London, 1796. ESTC No. T17439. Grub Street ID 211478.
  • Challoner, Richard. The garden of the soul; or, a manual of spiritual exercises and instructions for Christians, who, living in the world, aspire to devotion. Stockport: printed by J. Clarke: for T. Haydock, Manchester, 1799. ESTC No. T116009. Grub Street ID 167693.

Sold by J. Clarke

  • Olerenshaw, M. A sermon on the sanctification of the Sabbath, and on the right use and the abuse of Sunday-schools: preached October 1st, 1797. By the Revd. M. Olerenshaw, ... Stockport: printed and sold by J. Clarke. Sold also by Matthews, and Chapman, London; Reddish, Manchester; Bayley, Macclesfield; Sedgwick, Bradford, 1797. ESTC No. T45662. Grub Street ID 273879.
  • Mayer, Joseph, of Stockport. A defence of the Sunday schools: attempted in a series of letters, addressed to the Reverend M. Olerenshaw, in answer to his "Sermon on the sanctification of the Sabbath, and on the right use and the abuse of Sunday Schools". By J. Mayer. Stockport: printed and sold by J. Clarke, Stockport. Sold also by Chapman, and Evans, London; Reddish, and Thompson, Manchester; Hazard, Bath; Bayley, Macclesfield; Binns, Leeds; Swinney, Birmingham; Gore, Liverpool; Gardner, Bolton; Hodgson, Newcastle; Bulgin, Bristol; Burbage, Nottingham, 1798. ESTC No. T119694. Grub Street ID 171078.