Publications of J. Macnair

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 for J. Macnair

  • Ramsay, Allan. The tea-table miscellany: a collection of choice songs, Scots and English. By Allan Ramsay. Glasgow: printed for J. Macnair, 1782. ESTC No. N13436. Grub Street ID 3355.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by J. Macnair

  • R. B. The scarlet whore, or, the wicked abominations, horrid cruelties and persecutions of the Pope and Church of Rome displayed. Being a brief Relation of the bloody Practices, and inhuman Tortures, inflicted upon Protestants in all Countries where they had Authority and Dominion. With an Abstract of the cruel Persecutions lately exercised upon the Protestants in France and Savoy, in the Years 1686 and 1687. Together with a short Account of God's Judgements upon Popish Persecutors. Published as a seasonable warning to all Protestants, to inform them what they must expect from that bloody generation of Antichristians. Glasgow: printed and sold by J. Macnair, Printer and Bookseller below the Black Friars Wynd above the Cross; and by other Booksellers in Town and Country, 1779. ESTC No. T53219. Grub Street ID 280204.