Publications of J. Dickson

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. Dickson

  • Translations and paraphrases of several passages of sacred Scripture; prepared by a committee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, appointed to revise and enlarge the Collection of Translations and Paraphrases formerly published. Edinburgh: printed and sold by J. Dickson, Printer to the Church of Scotland, MDCCLXXXI. [1781]. ESTC No. T53118. Grub Street ID 280111.

Sold by J. Dickson

  • Adams, John Quincy. Observations on Paine's Rights of man, in a series of letters, by Publicola. Edinburgh: printed and sold by J. Dickson, and all the booksellers of Scotland, [1792?]. ESTC No. N10803. Grub Street ID 804.

Printed for J. Dickson

  • Monro, Alexander. Observations on the muscles, and particularly on the effects of their oblique fibres: with an appendix, in which the pretension of Dr Gilbert Blane, that he first demonstrated the same effect to be produced by oblique muscles as by straight ones, with a less Proportional Decurtation of Fibres, is proved to be unfounded. By Alexander Monro, M.D. Professor of Medicine, Anatomy and Surgery in the University of Edinburgh; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and of the Royal Academy of Surgery in Paris. Edinburgh: printed for J. Dickson, and E. Balfour; and T. Cadell, London, M.DCC.XCIV. [1794]. ESTC No. N10027. Grub Street ID 36.