Publications of the Turl

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 for the Turl

  • Tottie, John. Two charges delivered to the clergy of the diocese of Worcester, in the years 1763 and 1766; Being designed as preservatives Against the Sophistical Arts of the Papists, and The Delusions of the Methodists. By John Tottie, D. D. Arch-Deacon of Worcester, and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty. Published at the Request of the Clergy. Oxford: printed at the Theatre; and sold by J. Fletcher, in the Turl, Oxford; J. Fletcher and Co. in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London; and S. Gamidge at Worcester, MDCCLXVI. [1766]. ESTC No. N40310. Grub Street ID 27353.