Publications of B. Thorn

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 B. Thorn

  • Country Curate. A letter to Courtney Melmoth, Esquire; occasioned by his Apology for the life and writings of David Hume, Esq. &. By a country curate. Exeter: printed and sold by B. Thorn, Bookseller; and Mess. Richardson and Urquhart, London, [1777]. ESTC No. N10628. Grub Street ID 637.

Sold by B. Thorn

  • Grey, Richard. Memoria technica; or, a new method of artificial memory: applied to, and exemplified in, chronology, history, geography, astronomy: also, Jewish, Grecian, and Roman Coins, Weights, and Measures, &c. With Tables Proper to the respective Sciences; and Memorial Lines Adapted to each Table. By Richard Grey, D. D. Rector of Hinton, in Northamptonshire. Exeter: printed and sold by B. Thorn and Son, Booksellers: sold also by Messrs. Rivington and Sons, St. Paul's Church-Yard; B. Law, Ave-Mary-Lane; Messrs. Richardson and Urquhart, Royal Exchange; and T. Evans, Pater-Noster-Row, London, MDCCLXXXI. [1781]. ESTC No. T110578. Grub Street ID 163089.

Printed for B. Thorn

  • Moore, George. A sermon preached in the cathedral church of St. Peter, Exon, before the governors of the Devon and Exeter Hospital ... at their anniversary meeting, on Tuesday, August 28, 1770. By George Moore, ... Exon: printed by A. Brice and B. Thorn, for B. Thorn and E. Score, in Exon, and B. White, in London. For the benefit of the Hospital, [1770]. ESTC No. T180578. Grub Street ID 217245.