Publications of Joseph 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 Joseph Downing

  • Two letters of the Lord Bishop of London: the first, to the masters and mistresses of families in the English plantations abroad; exhorting them to encourage and promote the instruction of their negroes in the Christian faith. The second, to the missionaries there; directing them to distribute the said letter, and exhorting them to give their assistance towards the instruction of the negroes within their several parishes. London: printed by Joseph Downing, in Bartholomew-Close, near West-Smithfield, M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]. ESTC No. T52096. Grub Street ID 279259.

Sold by Joseph Downing

  • Gonson, Sir John. The charge of Sir John Gonson, Kt. to the grand jury of the city and liberty of Westminster, &c. At the general quarter-sessions of the peace, held the twenty fourth day of April 1728. The third edition.. London: printed and sold by Joseph Downing, 1728. ESTC No. N14736. Grub Street ID 4503.

Printed for Joseph Downing

  • Ollyffe, George. The madness of disaffection and treason against the present government. By George Ollyffe, M. A. Minister of Wendover and Great Kimbel in the County of Bucks. London: printed for Joseph Downing, in Bartholomew-Close, near Smithfield, MDCCXXIV. [1724]. ESTC No. N4444. Grub Street ID 29852.