Publications of John Downing

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 John Downing

  • Williams, John. A sermon preached before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. ... February 15. 1705/6. By ... John Lord Bishop of Chichester. London: printed by John Downing, 1706. ESTC No. T190068. Grub Street ID 225318.

Author

  • Downing, John. The case of Captain Downing. With the proceedings of a general court martial. And copies of letters to and from the Duke of Richmond, Sir Charles Morgan, Judge Advocate General, &c. &c. With the opinion of counsel Concerning the Legality of the Trial. By Captain John Downing, In the Royal Regiment of Artillery. London: printed for the author. Sold by J. Scott, No. 2, King Street, Westminster, 1796. ESTC No. T97279. Grub Street ID 316711.