Publications of John Exshaw

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 John Exshaw

  • Smollett, Tobias George. The reprisal: or, the tars of Old England. A comedy of two acts, as it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. Dublin: printed by J. Exshaw, in Dame-Street, and H. Saunders, in Castle-Street, Booksellers, MDCCLXI. [1761]. ESTC No. T55363. Grub Street ID 281950.

Printed for John Exshaw

  • Haywood, Eliza. The wife. Also, the husband, in answer to The wife. By Mira, one of the authors of The female spectator, and Betsy Thoughtless. In two volumes. Dublin: printed for John Exshaw, and Henry Saunders, 1756. ESTC No. T210772. Grub Street ID 238722.
  • Douxménil. The memoirs of Ninon de l'Enclos, with her letters to Monsr. de St. Evremond, and to the Marquis de Sevigne. Collected and translated from the French, by a lady. Dublin: printed for J. Exshaw, H. Saunders, and J. Potts, 1762. ESTC No. N10985. Grub Street ID 974.