Publications of J. Jefferies

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. Jefferies

  • De Coetlogon, Dennis. Diogenes at court: or, the modern cynic, discovering, with the assistance of his lantern, the characters of several nations, and of most of the princes, Heroes, and other Great Men of the Age: Viz. Of an African of the Kingdom of Morocco; of a Mahometan Philosopher and Theologian; of the Emperor of Morocco; of an old Spaniard; of a Spanish Bravo; of a modern Spaniard; of a Spanish Woman; of a Grandee of Spain; of a Spanish Bishop; of the Duke of Riperda; of Cardinal Alberoni; of the Queen Dowager of Spain; of the present King of Spain; of a Frenchman; of a French Nobleman; of the Cardinal Tencin; of the Marshal de Saxe; of the Dauphin; of the Dauphiness; of the Queen of France; and of the King of France; of the Queen of Hungary; of the King of Prussia; of the King of Sardinia; of the King of Portugal, of the Genoese, &c. &c. By the Chevalier de Coetlogon, Knight of the Military Order of St. Lazare, and Author of the Universal History of Arts and Sciences. London: printed by J. Jefferies, at the Bible, Crown and Star, in Ludgate-Street; Winbush at Charing-Cross; Dod at Temple-Bar; and Cook at the Royal-Exchange, 1748. ESTC No. T59591. Grub Street ID 285589.

Printed for J. Jefferies

  • Smith, William. An authentic account of the life and memoirs of Mr. William Smith, an unfortunate convict, executed at Tyburn, on the 3d of October, 1750, for forgery. In which are inserted some orginal letters, and an ode, never yet published. ... Written by himself. The third edition.. London: printed for J. Jefferies, and sold at the pamphlet-shops in London and Westminster, 1750. ESTC No. N43376. Grub Street ID 29165.