Publications of permission, 1780.

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 permission, 1780.

  • Church of England.. A form of prayer, To be used in all churches and chapels throughout that part of Great Britain called England, Dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick upon Tweed, upon Friday the fourth of February next, being the day appointed by proclamation for a general fast and humiliation before Almighty God, to be observed in most devout and Solemn manner, by sending up our prayers and supplications to the divine Majesty: for obtaining pardon of our sins, and for averting those heavy judgements which our manifold provocations have most justly deserved; and imploring His blessing and assistance on the arms of His Majesty by sea and land and for restoring and perpetuating peace, safety, and prosperity to himself and to His kingdoms. By His Majesty's special command. London: Printed by permission, 1780. ESTC No. T219518. Grub Street ID 243627.