Publications of T. Cocking

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 T. Cocking

  • Seyer, Samuel. A grammar of the Latin language. Bristol: printed by T. Cocking, in Small-Street, MDCCLXXXI. [1781]. ESTC No. T55562. Grub Street ID 282126.

Sold by T. Cocking

  • Jones, Henry. Clifton: a poem. In two cantos. Including Bristol and all its Environs. By the late Henry Jones, Author of the Earl of Essex, Isle of Wight, Kew-Gardens, &c. To which is added, An ode to Shakespear, In Honor of the Jubilee. Written by the same author. Bristol: printed and sold by T. Cocking, in Small-Street; -- sold also by the booksellers of Bristol, Bath, and London MDCCLXXIX. [1779]. ESTC No. T122498. Grub Street ID 173171.