Publications of James Blackstone

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 James Blackstone

  • Watts, Isaac. The second sett of catechisms and prayers: or, some helps to the religion of children, ... from seven to twelve years of age. Collected out of the larger books of prayer and catechisms for childhood and youth. By I. Watts, D.D. The sixth edition.. London: printed for James Brackstone, 1741. ESTC No. N36520. Grub Street ID 24493.
  • Godwin, Edward. A thanksgiving sermon preached at Little St. Helen's, to the society that support the Lord's day morning lecture there: on the First of August, 1743. In Commemoration of the Happy Accession of the present Royal Family to the Throne of Great Britain. By Edward Godwin. Published at the Request of the Society. London: printed for J. Brackstone, in Cornhill; and M. Fenner, in Gracechurch-Street, 1743. ESTC No. N14357. Grub Street ID 4239.
  • Doddridge, Philip. The rise and progress of religion in the soul: illustrated in a course of serious and practical addresses, suited to persons of every character and circumstance:... By P. Doddridge, D.D. The third edition.. London: printed for J. Brackstone; and J. Waugh, 1745. ESTC No. N69587. Grub Street ID 50606.