Publications of Mr. Ja.

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 Mr. Ja.

  • Brown, William. The benefit and comfort of the Christian revelation. A sermon preached in the High Church of Edinburgh, Monday, January 5. 1736, upon occasion of the anniversary meeting of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge. By Mr. William Brown, one of the ministers of Edinburgh. Published at the desire of the Society. Edinburgh: printed by Mr. Ja. Davidson and Company, and sold at his Shop opposite to the Cross, MDCCXXXVI. [1736]. ESTC No. T189804. Grub Street ID 225137.

Printed for Mr. Ja.

  • Boston, Thomas. A view of the covenant of grace from the sacred records: wherein the parties in that covenant, the making of it, its parts conditionary and promissory, and the administration thereof, are distinctly considered: together with the trial of a personal inbeing in it, and the Way of Enstating Sinners therein unto their Fternal Saivation. To which is subjoin'd, a memorial concerning personal and family fasting and Humiliation, presented to Saints and Sinners. By the late Reverend and Learn'd Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Etrick. Edinburgh: printed by R. Fleming and A. Alison, for Mr. Ja. Davidson, and sold at Mr. Trail's and other booksellers shops, M.DCC.XLII. [1742]. ESTC No. T74874. Grub Street ID 297695.