Publications of J. Collyer

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 J. Collyer

  • Whitlock, John. A short attempt for preserving the memory, and improving the death of three eminent, aged, ministers of Christ, late of Nottingham. viz. Mr. William Reynolds, ... Mr. John Whitlock, ... Mr. John Barret, ... In two sermons, ... By John Whitlock, ... Nottingham: printed by J. Collyer, and sold by R. Robinson; N. Cliff and D. Jackson, London, 1714. ESTC No. N22696. Grub Street ID 12045.

Sold by J. Collyer

  • The history of Menuthia, with an account of the chief transactions in that Kingdom, since the new revolution there. In a letter from Antongil in the isle of Madagascar, to the governor of the Dutch colony near the Cape of Good Hope. Done out of French. Nottingham: printed and sold by J. Collyer in the Long-Row, 1715. ESTC No. T92182. Grub Street ID 311976.

Printed for J. Collyer

  • Bodmer, Johann Jakob. Noah. Attempted from the German of Mr. Bodmer. . The second edition.. London: printed for J. Collyer in Plough Court Fetter Lane, and sold by J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, T. Callon in Stationers Court, and F. Newbery the corner of Ludgate Street, MDCCLXX. [1770]. ESTC No. T104752. Grub Street ID 158254.