Publications of J. Swan
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:
- "printed by x"; or
- "sold by x"; or
- "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,":
- "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. Swan
- Dorset, Lionel Cranfield Sackville. A letter from the D- of D- to the L-d C-ll-r of Ireland. London [i.e. Dublin?]: printed by J. Swan, facing Northumberland House in the Strand, 1753. ESTC No. T65117. Grub Street ID 290035.
Sold by J. Swan
- Middlesex (England).. The polls at, and since, the last general election of Knights of the Shire for the county of Middlesex; Faithfully and exactly taken from the poll books, and carefully compared with the same. With a general index of all the freeholders names, places of abode, and where their freeholds lie. London: Printed and sold by J. Swan, opposite Norfolk-Street, in the Strand, M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]. ESTC No. T44026. Grub Street ID 272511.
Printed for J. Swan
- Glover, Richard. The life of Dr. Oliver Goldsmith: written from personal knowledge, authentic papers, and other indubitable authorities. To which are added, such select observations, from various parts of this writer's works, as may tend to recreate the fancy, improve the understanding, and amend the heart. London: printed for J. Swan, in the Strand, 1774. ESTC No. N10927. Grub Street ID 916.