Publications of Thomas Pearson.

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 Thomas Pearson.

  • Pearson, Richard. A short account of the nature and properties of different kinds of airs, so far as relates to their medicinal use; intended as an introduction to the pneumatic method of treating diseases, with Miscellaneous Observations on certain Remedies used in Consumptions. By Richard Pearson, M. D. Physician to the General Hospital, near Birmingham, and Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London. Birmingham: printed by Thomas Pearson. Sold by R. Baldwin, No. 47, Pater-Noster Row, London, MDCCXCV. [1795]. ESTC No. N22487. Grub Street ID 11835.

Sold by Thomas Pearson.

  • Cotes, John. Diaria Britannica; or, the British diary: an almanack, for the year of our Lord 1791. Being the third after bessextile, or leap year. Containing, A Variety of useful and entertaining Matter in arts and sciences: Calculated, in a particular Manner, for the Improvement of the curious. The fourth almanack published of this kind. Birmingham: printed and sold by Thomas Pearson. At the wholesale almanack, stationary, and medicine warehouse in the High-Street, sold also by all the booksellers in England, [1791]. ESTC No. T146249. Grub Street ID 192919.