Publications of J. Downing

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. Downing

  • A view of the articles of the Protestant and Popish faith. London: printed by J. Downing, in Bartholomew-Close, [1701?]. ESTC No. T50761. Grub Street ID 278303.

Sold by J. Downing

  • The methods used for erecting charity-schools: with the rules and orders by which they are govern'd. To which is added, an appendix, containing forms, &c. relating to the charity-schools. The eighteenth edition with additions.. London: printed and sold by J. Downing, 1724. ESTC No. N11318. Grub Street ID 1318.

Printed for J. Downing

  • Ollyffe, George. The truth of a future state, and of its happiness by a redeemer. By George Ollyffe, M.A. London: printed for J. Downing, in Bartholomew-Close' near West-Smithfield, M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]. ESTC No. N14187. Grub Street ID 4075.