Publications of the translator

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 translator

  • Solomon, Israel Meshullam. A form of prayer composed by the reveren'd and most learned rabby Israel Meshulom Solomon, D.D. rabby of the Jews synagogue in Magpye Alley, ... To be used on Friday the 13th day of December, 1776. For success of his Majesty's arms, ... Faithfully translated by Alex. Alexander. London]: Printed and sold by the translator, No. 78, White-Chapel High-Street, [1776. ESTC No. N48821. Grub Street ID 33293.

Printed for the translator

  • Royal College of Physicians of London.. The new dispensatory of the Royal College of Physicians in London. With copious and accurate indexes. Faithfully translated from the Latin of the Pharmacop.ia Londinensis, publish'd by order of the King and Council. London: printed for the translator, and sold by W. Owen, 1746. ESTC No. N10013. Grub Street ID 21.