Publications of Messrs. Lee

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 Messrs. Lee

  • Cullen, William. Clinical lectures, delivered in the years 1765 and 1766, by William Cullen, M.D. Late Professor of the practice of physic in the University of Edinburgh; First Physician to His Majesty for Scotland; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh; of the Royal Society of Medicine at Paris; &c. &c. Taken in short-hand by a gentleman who attended. London: printed for Messrs. Lee and Hurst, Paternoster-Row, MDCCXCVII. [1797]. ESTC No. T53255. Grub Street ID 280216.