Publications of George Grierson

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 George Grierson

Sold by George Grierson

  • Bacon, Thomas, of the Custom-House, Dublin. A compleat system of the revenue of Ireland, in its several branches of import, export, and inland duties. Containing, I. An abridgment of all the English and Irish statutes now in force relating to the revenue of Ireland, ... II. The former and additional book of rates inwards and outwards, ... III. A distinct view of the duties ... of the revenue of Ireland, ... IV. The method of making entries inwards and outwards: ... By Thomas Bacon, ... Dublin: printed and sold by George Grierson, 1744. ESTC No. N16288. Grub Street ID 5966.

Printed for George Grierson

  • Ward, James. A new miscellany of poems and translations. Never before printed. By the author of The smock-race at Finglas. Dublin: printed by Thomas Humes for George Grierson, at the Two Bibles in Essex-Street, 1716. ESTC No. N11262. Grub Street ID 1259.