Publications of John Exshaw

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 John Exshaw

  • Newcome, William. An historical view of the English biblical translations: the expediency of revising by authority our present translation: and the means of executing such a revision. By William Newcome D. D. Bishop of Waterford, and member of the Royal Irish Academy. Dublin: printed by John Exshaw, 1792. ESTC No. T53398. Grub Street ID 280359.

Printed for John Exshaw

  • Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the laws of England. In four books The fifth edition. By Sir William Blackstone, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Honourable Court of common Pleas. Dublin: printed for John Exshaw, Henry Saunders, James Williams, and David Hay, MDCCLXXIII. [1773]. ESTC No. N14747. Grub Street ID 4514.