Publications of Toplis and

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 Toplis and

  • Dyche, Thomas. A new general English dictionary; peculiarly calculated for the use and improvement of such as are unacquainted with the learned languages. ... Originally begun by the late Reverend Mr. Thomas Dyche, ... and finished by the late William Pardon, gent. The eighteenth edition, with the addition of the several market towns ... London: printed for Toplis and Bunney; and J. Mozley, Gainsbrough, 1781. ESTC No. N20230. Grub Street ID 9627.