Publications of John Lewis

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 John Lewis

  • The christian history: Or, a general account of the progress of the Gospel, In England, Wales, Scotland, and America: So far as The Rev. Mr Whitefield, his Fellow-Labourers, and Assistants are concerned. London: printed and sold by John Lewis, in Bartholomew-Close, near West-Smithfield, 1747. ESTC No. T57853. Grub Street ID 284027.

Sold by John Lewis

  • Morin, J. A short account of the life and sufferings of Elias Neau, upon the gallies, and in the dungeons of Marseilles; for the constant profession of the Protestant religion. Newly translated from the French, by John Christian Jacobi, gent. This treatise was printed at the end o The new book of martyrs, lately published by the recommendation of the Rev. Mr. Bateman, Rector of St. Bartholomew the Great, in London; and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Countess Dowager of Huntingdon. London: printed and sold by John Lewis, Printer and Publisher in Pater-Noster-Row, near Cheapside, MDCCXLIX. [1749]. ESTC No. N22534. Grub Street ID 11883.

Printed for John Lewis

  • An account of the rise and progress of a remarkable work of grace among great numbers of the people in Gelderland., In a letter from a Protestant minister ... to a minister of the Church of Scotland, and another to a merchant: . London: printed for John Lewis, 1751. ESTC No. N63964. Grub Street ID 46041.