Publications of P. Vailliant

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 P. Vailliant

  • The great theater of honour and nobility; containing, I. The science of heraldry, with a Compleat Dictionary of all the Terms proper thereto. II. An historical and chronological abridgment of the settlements and revolutions of the Monarchies and Sovereignties of Europe, from the Downfall of the Roman Empire, till towards the End of the Tenth Century. III. The present state of the empire of Germany, with relation to the Emperor, King of the Romans, Electors, Princes of the Empire, Imperial Cities, Diets, &c. IV. The atchievements and blazo of the emperors, Kings, Princes, and Sovereign States of Christendom. Both in French and English. Illustrated and Adorned with about forty copper-plates, Curiously Engraved. By Mr. A. Boyer, Author of the Royal Dictionary, French and English. The second edition.. London: printed and sold by P. Vailliant, in the Strand; G. Woodfall, at Charing-Cross; and C. Brinckman, in Brewer-Street, near Golden-Square, M.DCC.LIV. [1754]. ESTC No. T194094. Grub Street ID 228089.