Publications of J. Brown

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. Brown

  • Ramsay, Allan. The gentle shepherd, by Allan Ramsay: with the original music. To which are added, the familiar epistles, and a complete glossary. Perth: printed by J. Brown; printer to the Perth Antiquarian Society. Anno, 1786. ESTC No. T60184. Grub Street ID 286076.

Sold by J. Brown

  • Robinson, Thomas. A serious exhortation to the inhabitants of Great Britain with reference to the approaching fast. By the Rev. Thomas Robinson, ... Leicester: printed and sold by J. Brown; sold also by the other booksellers in Leicester, by J. Matthews, and by C. Dilly, London, 1795. ESTC No. N22203. Grub Street ID 11570.

Printed for J. Brown

  • Povey, Charles. The virgin in Eden: Or, pilgrims progress; by way of dialogue. Represented by a nobleman, student, and heiress, on their journey from Sodom to Canaan. With the parable of the Shepherd, Zachariah and Mary, who dwelt in thatched tenements, secluded from noise and snares; their holy living and dying, &c. &c. By C. Povey, gent. The fifth edition.. London: Printed for J. Brown, at No. 22, in Holyday-yard, Creed Lane, Ludgate Street; and sold by all booksellers in town and country, 1767. ESTC No. T199700. Grub Street ID 231701.