Publications of J. Binns

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 J. Binns

  • Bunyan, John. Grace abounding to the chief of sinners; or, a brief and faithful relation of the exceeding mercy of God in Christ, to his poor servant, John Bunyan. Wherein is particularly shewed, The Manner of his Conversion, his Sight and Trouble for Sin, his dreadful Temptations; also how he despaired of God's Mercy, and how the Lord at length through Christ, did deliver him from all the Guilt and Terror that lay upon him. All which was written with his own Hand, and now published for the Support of the weak and tempted People of God. To which is added, His Dying Sayings. Leeds: printed by J. Binns, 1798. ESTC No. T58509. Grub Street ID 284633.

Printed for J. Binns

  • Smalpage, S. The duty of supporting, and making a provision for, families: a sermon, preached at the anniversary-meeting of a benefit-society at Whitkirk, on Whit-Monday, 1792. By S. Smalpage, ... Leeds: printed by Thomas Wright; for J. Binns, and Smith and Graveley, Leeds; and sold by J. Johnson, and W. Richardson, London; J. and J. Merrils, Cambridge; J. Hurst, Wakefield, &c. &c. &c., 1792. ESTC No. N2937. Grub Street ID 18546.