Publications of Richardson and

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 Richardson and

  • Peacock, James. The outlines of a scheme, for the general relief, instruction, emplyoment [sic] and maintenance of the poor, &c. Humbly submitted to the consideration of Parliament. London: Printed by Richardson and Co. Mitre-Court, Cheapside, MDCCLXXVII. [1777]. ESTC No. T59184. Grub Street ID 285205.

Printed for Richardson and

  • Child, Josiah. A new discourse of trade: wherein are recommended several weighty points relating to companies of merchants, the act of navigation, naturalization of strangers, and our woollen manufactures: The balance of trade, and the nature of plantations, with their consequences in relation to the kingdom, are seriously discussed: methods for the employment and maintenance of the poor are proposed: the reduction of interest of money to 4PR(T. per cent. is recommended: and some proposals for erecting a Court of Merchants for determining controversies relating to maritime affairs, and for a law for transference of bills of debts, are humbly offered. By Sir Josiah Child. A new edition.. London: Printed for Richardson and Urquhart, under the Royal Exchange, MDCCLXXV. [1775]. ESTC No. N10021. Grub Street ID 30.