Publications of the author:

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."

Sold by the author:

  • Rose, John. A constitutional catechism, adapted to all ranks and capacities, illustrated with copious notes: principally extracted from the commentaries of the late Judge Blackstone. To which is prefixed an epistolary dedication to the honorable Thomas Erskine, M.P. By John Rose. Bristol: printed and sold by the author: sold also by the booksellers throughout the kingdom, 1795. ESTC No. T165396. Grub Street ID 203652.

Printed for the author:

  • Clark, John. Observations on fevers, especially those of the continued type; and on the scarlet fever attended with ulcerated sore-throat. By John Clark, M.D. . London: printed for the author: and sold by T. Cadell; and J. Murray, 1792. ESTC No. N10818. Grub Street ID 815.