Publications of Johnson &

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 Johnson &

  • Zimmermann, Johann Georg. Solitude considered with respect to its influence upon the mind and the heart. Written originally in German by M. Zimmermann, aulic counsellor and physician to His Britannic Majesty at Hanover. Translated from the French of J.B. Mercier. [Six lines in French from La Fontaine]. Wilmington [Del.]: Printed by Johnson & Preston, no. 73, Market-Street, 1797. ESTC No. W3362. Grub Street ID 344220.

Printed for Johnson &

  • The evil of national division. A semon, preached at the Great Meeting Hosue in Coventry. On Wednesday, August 10, 1768. By Thomas Porter, of Hinckley, Leicestershire. London: Printed for Johnson & Payne, NO. 8, Pater-noster-Row; and Mrs. Gardiner in Gracechurch-street, MDCCLXVIII. [1768]. ESTC No. T183369. Grub Street ID 219779.