Publications of Jos. Bliss

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 Jos. Bliss

  • Withers, John. The history of resistance, As Practis'd by the Church of England: in which 'tis proved, from most Authentick Records, That in every Reign since the Reformation of Religion, the said Church hath Aided and Assisted, Justified and Approved of, such Subjects as have Defended themselves against the Oppressions of their Tyrannical, tho' Natural Princes. Written upon occasion of Mr. Agate's sermon on the 30th of January, and in defence of the late revolution, the present establishment, and the Protestant succession. The second edition. By John Withers. Exon: printed by Jos. Bliss in the Exchange, and sold by the booksellers of Exon, M.DCC.X. [1710]. ESTC No. T36444. Grub Street ID 266367.