Publications of James Magee

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 James Magee

  • Hyndman, C. A new method of raising flax; by which it is proved, that Ireland may raise annually many thousand pounds worth more flax from the usual quantity of land, and from one fourth less seed than by the common method. With tables, Shewing what Quantity of Seed will sow any Lot or Quantity of Ground. The whole containing Many useful and curious Remarks on that valuable plant, never before made publick. By C. Hyndman. Belfast: printed by James Magee, for the author, MDCCLXXIV. [1774]. ESTC No. T55199. Grub Street ID 281806.

Sold by James Magee

  • Coffey, Charles. The devil to pay: or, the wives metamorphos'd. An operatical farce. As it is perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. By His Majesty's servants. Newly adapted to the stage, with the addition of several new songs. Belfast: printed and sold by James Magee, in Bridge-Street, M,DCC,LXIII. [1763]. ESTC No. T119131. Grub Street ID 170586.

Printed for James Magee

  • The whole prophecies of Scotland, England, France, Ireland, and Denmark, prophesied by Thomas Rymer, Marvellous Merling, Beid, Berlington, Waldhave, Eltrain, Banester, and Sybilla. All agreeing in one; both in Latin Verse, and in Scottish Meeter. Containing many Strange and Marvellous Matters, not before Read or heard of. Compared with the best editions. [Belfast]: Glasgow, printed; and Belfast re-printed, by and for James Magee, in Bridge street, M,DCC,LVII. [1757]. ESTC No. T119114. Grub Street ID 170569.