Publications of B.A. Benjamin

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 B.A. Benjamin

  • Burton, John. A genuine and true journal of the most miraculous escape of the young Chevalier, from the battle of Culloden to his landing in France; taken from the mouths and journals of the very persons, who assisted him therein, partly wrote in London, and partly in Scotland. To which is added, a short account of what befel the Pr. in France, and the manner of taking him prisoner, and sending him to Avignon, and from his departure thence, as supposed for Poland, &c. Together with a brief relation of what became of some of those who composed his army. By an Englishman. London: printed for B.A. near Charing-Cross, M,DCC,XLIX. [1749]. ESTC No. T40755. Grub Street ID 269794.