Publications of A. Alison

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 A. Alison

  • Erskine, Ralph. The giving love of Christ, and The receiving Property of Faith. Four sermons on Sacramental Occasions, upon Gal. ii. 20. ---Who loved me, and gave himself for me. The first preached at Stirling, on the Preparation-Day before the Sacrament there, July 14. 1739. The second preached immediately before the Action there, July 15. The third at Kinchaven, July 30. The fourth at Burntisland, August 13. By Ralph Erskine, M. A. Minister of the Gospel at Dunfermline. Entred in the Stationers-Hall. Edinburgh: printed by A. Alison, for David Duncan and James Beugo, Dunfermline; and sold by William Marschal, Home, and James Weir, Sessford, M.DCC.XL. [1740]. ESTC No. T53915. Grub Street ID 280781.