Publications of o. 17)

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 o. 17)

  • The tricks of London laid open: being, a true caution to both sexes in town and country. I. A General Reflection on the Town, with a Description of the present State of it. II. A Disswasive against Idleness, with the Character of a Sot. III. The Character of a Beau and a Gamester. IV, The Humours, Customs and Tricks of the Play-House, are discover'd and expos'd. V. The tricks of Cockers, Cock matches, and the Cheats of Horse-Races and Foot-Matches are discover'd VI. The villainy of money-dropper is expos'd, and the roguish methods they take to impose on country-men. VII. The Tricks of Bawds and Whores are detected, with a Description of a Bawdy house, and the art of Trapping. VIII. The Character of a Bully, Setter, and Spunger. IX. Particular Observations and Reflections upon several distinct occurrences of the Town. The sixth edition with considerable improvements.. London: printed by T. Sabine, (no. 17) in Little New-street, Shoe-Lane, Fleet-Street; where Printing is Performed at the Letter Press, and off Copper Plate, on the most reasonable Terms, and with Expedition, [between 1774 and 1779?]. ESTC No. T181956. Grub Street ID 218475.