Publications of J. Owen

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. Owen

  • Raine, Thomas. A copy of an indenture of release of several freehold and leasehold premises, from the late Mr. Henry Raine, Of the Parish of Saint George, Middlesex, to Trustees for Charitable Purposes therein mentioned. London: printed by J. Owen, in Ratcliffe-Highway, near Wellclose-Square, M,DCC,XLVIII. [1748]. ESTC No. T83042. Grub Street ID 303521.

Sold by J. Owen

  • Cobbett, William. The bloody buoy, thrown out as a warning to the political pilots of America; or a faithful relation of a multitude of acts of horrid barbarity, such as the eye never witnessed, the tongue never expressed, or the imagination conceived, until the commencement of the French Revolution. To which is added, an instructive essay, tracing these dreadful effects to their real causes. By Peter Porcupine. London]: Philadelphia printed. London reprinted, and sold by J. Owen, No. 168, Piccadilly, [1796?. ESTC No. T13709. Grub Street ID 185158.

Printed for J. Owen

  • Miles, William Augustus. A letter to the Prince of Wales, on a second application to Parliament, to discharge debts wantonly contracted since May, 1787. Eighth edition, with notes, and a postscript enlarged.. London: printed for J. Owen, NO. 168, Piccadilly, Facing Bond-Street, [1795]. ESTC No. N10469. Grub Street ID 479.