Publications of Thomas Pearson

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 Thomas Pearson

  • Hutton, William. An history of Birmingham. The third edition, with considerable additions, and new engravings of the public buildings. By W. Hutton, F. A. S. S. Birmingham: printed and sold by Thomas Pearson; sold also by R. Baldwin, and L. B. Seeley, London, MDCCXCV. [1795]. ESTC No. T53078. Grub Street ID 280071.

Sold by Thomas Pearson

  • Croft, George. The test laws defended. A sermon preached at St. Phillip's Church in Birmingham, on Sunday, January the 3d, 1790. With a preface containing remarks on Dr. Price's Revolution sermon, and other publications. By George Croft, D. D. Late Fellow Of University College, Vicar Of Amcliffe, Master Of The Grammar School In Breewood, And Chaplain To The Earl Of Elgin. Birmingham: printed and sold by Thomas Pearson; sold also by R. Baldwin, Pater Noster-Row, London: Miss Creswell, Wolverhampton, and by the booksellers of Oxford and Cambridge, MDCCXC. [1790]. ESTC No. T134194. Grub Street ID 182869.