Publications of M. Downing

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 M. Downing

  • Jones, Griffith. The platform of Christianity. Being the general heads of the Protestant religion, as professed in the Church of England, set forth in the words of the thirty nine articles of religion. Divided into Paragraphs in the Method of a Catechism: to which are added, scripture proofs. With a preface, Concerning the present Defection from the Christian Faith; and some Considerations humbly offered towards reconciling Mens different Opinions about Predestination, mentioned in the Seventeenth Article. By a country clergyman. London: printed by M. Downing, in Bartholomew-Close, 1744. ESTC No. T61688. Grub Street ID 287332.

Sold by M. Downing

  • Woodward, Josiah. An account of the rise and progress of the religious societies in the city of London, &c. and of their endeavours for reformation of manners. By Josiah Woodward, D.D. The sixth edition.. London: printed and sold by M. Downing, in Bartholomew-Close, near West-Smithfield, 1744. ESTC No. N16159. Grub Street ID 5841.

Printed for M. Downing

  • Lewis, John. A defence of the communion office and catechism of the Church of England, from the False and groundless charge of their favouring the doctrine of transubstantiation; brought against them by two of the present popish English missionaries in their late books, entitled, Pastoral instructions, &c. printed A. D. 1713. And A plain answer to Dr. Middleton's Letter from Rome, printed A. D. 1741. Addressed to the Inhabitants of London and Westminster, By John Lewis, M. A. Minister of Margate in Kent. London: printed for M. Downing, in Bartholomew-Close near West-Smithfield, MDCCXLII. [1742]. ESTC No. N187. Grub Street ID 8168.