Publications of Geo. Grierson

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 Geo. Grierson

  • Lord.. A letter from a lord to a commoner, concerning The Two Church Bills lately Rejected. Dublin: printed by Geo. Grierson, at the two Bibles in Essex-Street, 1732. ESTC No. T60158. Grub Street ID 286048.

Sold by Geo. Grierson

  • Lee, Edward. The statute-law of Ireland common-placed. Or, a general table of all the publick printed English and Irish Acts of Parliament now in force and use in Ireland, ... By Edward Lee, ... Dublin: printed and sold by Geo. Grierson, 1735. ESTC No. T146678. Grub Street ID 193294.

Printed for Geo. Grierson

  • Vertot. The history of the revolutions that happened in the government of the Roman Republic. Written in French by the Abbot de Vertot, of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions, &c. The fifth edition. English'd by Mr. Ozell from the original newly reprinted at Paris, with amendments and additions by the Author himself, in almost every Page: Besides not a few essential Alterations and Corrections in This Fourth Edition more than in any of the preceding ones. either French or Dutch. Volume the First. To which is prefixed, A Translation of a Memorial sent from London by the late Earl Stanhope to the Abbot De Vertot at Paris, containing divers Questions relating to the Constitution of the Roman Senate. With the Abbot's Answer. Dublin: printed by R. Reilly on Cork-Hill. For Geo. Grierson, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, at the King's Arms and Two Bibles in Essex Street, and Geo. Ewing, at the Angel and Bible in Dames-Street, Booksellers, MDCCXXXVI. [1736]. ESTC No. T81014. Grub Street ID 301872.