Publications of the Black-Swan

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 for the Black-Swan

  • Rival, Pierre. The irish missionary unmask'd: or, the Abbat Goulde, an Irish priest, (a Frenchman by Naturalization) Treasurer and Head of the Church and Chapter of our Lady of Thouars, (in France,) and Missionary (in Poitou,) convicted of four falsehoods, and of a great Oversight, if not a Fifth Fraud, in one single Article concerning the Church of England, upon the Invocation of Saints; all contain'd in one Page in 12-. of his letter to a gentleman of Low-Poiton; which he has been pleas'd to entitle, The true belief of the Catholick Church, against the tenets falsly ascrib' to her, in the Writings of the (protestant) Ministers. Written in French, by Mr. Rival, one of the Ministers of the French Chapel at St. James's; and translated into English, by D. G. Gent. With The Translator's Advertisement. London: printed for D. Browne, at the Black-Swan without Temple-Bar; and sold by J. Roberts, at the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, MDCCXXIV. [1724]. ESTC No. T37394. Grub Street ID 267067.