Publications of J. Potts

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. Potts

  • Pope, Alexander. The works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In ten volumes complete. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Together with all his notes, as they were delivered to the Editor a little before his Death: printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton. Dublin: printed by J. Potts, at Swift's-Head, in Dame-Street; and J. Williams, in Skinner-Row, MDCCLXIV. [1764]. ESTC No. T5445. Grub Street ID 281284.

Printed for J. Potts

  • Bruckner, John. A philosophical survey of the animal creation, an essay. Wherein The general Devastation and Carnage, that reign among the different Classes of Animals, are considered in a new Point of View; and the vast Increase of Life and Enjoyment derived to the Whole from this Institution of Nature is clearly demonstrated. Translated from the French. Dublin: printed for J. Potts, at Swift's Head in Dame-Street, M.DCC.LXX. [1770]. ESTC No. N12564. Grub Street ID 2562.