Publications of the United

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 the United

  • Smollett, Tobias George. The adventures of Peregrine Pickle. In which are included, Memoirs of a lady of quality. In three volumes. Vol I. Dublin: printed by the United Company of Book-Sellers, 1775. ESTC No. T164310. Grub Street ID 202578.

Printed for the United

  • Gueullette, Thomas-Simon. Peruvian tales, related in one thousand and one hours, by one of the select virgins of Cusco, to the Ynca of Peru, to dissuade him from a resolution he had taken to destroy himself by poison. Interspersed with curious and historical remarks, ... Translated from the origina French, by Samuel Humphreys, Esq; In two volumes. ... Dublin: printed by T. Henshall, for the United Company of Booksellers, 1784. ESTC No. N20211. Grub Street ID 9607.