Publications of Adlard &

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 Adlard &

  • Society of Gentlemen.. By the King's royal licence and authority, granted at St. James's, on the 28th day of February, 1769. An entire new work. On Saturday the 8th of April, 1769, will be published, ... Number I. (To be continued weekly) of England displayed. Being a new, complete, and accurate survey and description of the kingdom of England, and principality of Wales. ... By a society of gentlemen. ... The particulars respecting England, ... by P. Russell, ... and those relating to Wales, by Mr. Owen Price. London: printed by Adlard & Browne, for the authors; and sold by S. Bladon, T. Evans, and J. Coote; W. Domville, and F. Blythe; and by a [sic] booksellers, stationers, and news-carriers, in Great Britain and Ireland, [1769]. ESTC No. T217544. Grub Street ID 242473.