Publications of Thomas Martin

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 Thomas Martin

  • Bunyan, John. The heavenly footman or a description of The Man that gets to Heaven. Together with the way he runs in, the marks he goes by: Also, some Directions how to Run so as to Obtain. By John Bunyan, Author of the Pilgrim's Progress. London: printed by Thomas Martin, No. 76, Wood Street, [1790?]. ESTC No. T58531. Grub Street ID 284658.

Printed for Thomas Martin

  • The life and adventures of Bampfylde-Moore Carew, commonly called the king of the beggars: being an impartial account of his life, ... and a dictionary of the cant language, used by the mendicants. London: printed for Thomas Martin, 1788. ESTC No. N19107. Grub Street ID 8532.