Publications of J. Barker

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. Barker

  • Dibdin, Thomas. Songs, Recitatives, &c. in the volcano, or, the Rival Harlequins. A serio-comic pantomime, Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. With entire new Music, Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, and Decorations. London: printed and sold by J. Barker, Dramatic Repository, Great Russell-Street, Covent-Garden, [1799]. ESTC No. T54950. Grub Street ID 281578.

Sold by J. Barker

  • The praise of folly. Translated from the best Latin edition of Erasmus, by W. Kennet, late lord bishop of Peterborough. Illustrated with fifty curious cuts, by the celebrated Hans Holbeine. To which is prefixed, the author's epistle to Sir Thomas More. And the life of the author, by Thomas Brown. The eighth edition.. London: Printed and sold by J. Barker, near the Pit-Door, in Russell-Court, Drury-Lane, and W. Phorson, Berwick, [1785?]. ESTC No. T174618. Grub Street ID 211698.

Printed for J. Barker

  • Harley, Mrs. M. The prince of Leon. A Spanish romance. In two volumes. By Mrs. Harley. Author of Juliana ormeston, &c. . London: printed for J. Barker, Russell Court, Drury Lane, 1794. ESTC No. N11483. Grub Street ID 1482.