Publications of J. Gowan

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. Gowan

  • Beckingham. A poem on His most sacred Majesty King George the IId, his accession to the throne. Addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Peterborow. By Mr. Beckinghan. Dublin: London: printed, and Dublin: re-printed by J. Gowan, 1727. ESTC No. T5213. Grub Street ID 279291.

Sold by J. Gowan

  • Defoe, Daniel. Every-body's business, is no-body's business; or, private abuses, publick grievances: exemplified in the pride, insolence, and exorbitant wages of our women-servants, footmen, &c. With a proposal for amendment of the same; ... By Andrew Moreton, Esq;. Dublin: re-printed and sold by J. Gowan, 1726. ESTC No. T181995. Grub Street ID 218517.

Printed for J. Gowan

  • Prideaux, Humphrey. Directions to church-wardens for the faithful discharge of their office. By Humphrey Prideaux, D.D. ... To this edition is added a table of the contents, and a large alphabetical index. Dublin: printed by, and for J. Gowan, and sold by the booksellers, 1726. ESTC No. T182825. Grub Street ID 219266.