Publications of Murray &

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 Murray &

  • Walker, Thomas. Essays and sermons, on doctrinal and practical subjects. By the late Reverend Mr Thomas Walker, Minister of the Gospel at Dundonald, And Author of the Vindication of the Discipline and Constitutions of the Church of Scotland. Edinburgh: printed by Murray & Cochran. Sold by W. Gray, J. Dickson, C. Elliot, Edinburgh; J. Duncan, Glasgow; J. Meuros, J. Wilson, Kilmarnock, MDCCLXXXII. [1782]. ESTC No. N2131. Grub Street ID 10689.

Sold by Murray &

  • Newton, John. Messiah. Fifty expository dicourses, on the series of scriptural passages, which form the subject of the celebrated oratorio of Handel. Preached in the years 1784 and 1785, in the parish church of St Mary Woolnoth, ... By John Newton, Rector. In two volumes. ... Edinburgh: printed and sold by Murray & Cochrane, 1798. ESTC No. N4019. Grub Street ID 27263.