Publications of and to

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 and to

  • Spirit calculator; or, merchant, grocer, distiller, and dealers, [sic] daily companion. ... With great additions. ... Dublin: printed by and to be had of Thomas Wilkinson, [1791]. ESTC No. T216074. Grub Street ID 241851.

Printed for and to

  • Doddridge, Philip. A plain and serious address to the master of a family on the important subject of family religion. By Philip Doddridge, D.D. [Newburyport, Mass.]: London printed: re-printed at Newburyport, by Blunt & March, 1795. For and to be sold by Edmund Sawyer, at his shop in Newbury, [1795]. ESTC No. W32326. Grub Street ID 342806.