Publications of Bathurst at

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 for Bathurst at

  • Knowles, Thomas. An answer to An essay on spirit: wherein is shewn, that the author's interpretation of scripture is imperfect; and his representation of the opinions of the antient fathers, unfair. By Thomas Knowles, M. A. Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Lady Hervey. London: printed for C. Bathurst at the Cross-Keys in Fleetstreet; and sold by Mr. Thirlbourn at Cambridge, Mr. Parker at Oxford, and by Mrs Watson and Mrs Rogers at Bury, MDCCLIII. [1753]. ESTC No. T63065. Grub Street ID 288365.