Publications of J. Brown

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. Brown

  • Two discourses: first, on the pomps and vanities of this world, From Romans XII. II. Second, on the nature and design of the Lord's supper. With suitable meditations. To which are added two forms of prayer. London: printed by J. Brown, for J. Walder, and sold by Mr. Buckingham, Pater noster row, and at the Printing-Office, in Fair Street, Horsly-Down, Southwark, [1775?]. ESTC No. T52055. Grub Street ID 279221.

Sold by J. Brown

  • Meymott, William. An abridgment of such part of the Building Act, (passed in the Year, 1774,) as will be useful to all persons who have either Freehold or Leasehold Houses or Buildings, particularly to Surveyors, Builders, Carpenters, Bricklayers, &c. With a General Index to the whole Act. (second edition) by Late William Meymott. Of Church Street, St. John's, Southwark, One of the Surveyors appointed under the said Act. London: printed and sold by J. Brown, Fair Street, Horsly-Down, Southwark; and at Mr. Taylor's, Architectural Liberary, No. 56, High Holborn, opposite Great Turn-Stile, [1775?]. ESTC No. N27030. Grub Street ID 16350.

Printed for J. Brown

  • Purney, Thomas. Pastorals. After the simple manner of Theocritus. By Mr. Purney. The second edition corrected.. London: printed by H. Parker, for J. Brown, at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar, and R. Burleigh, in Amen-Corner, 1717 [1716]. ESTC No. N11973. Grub Street ID 1978.