Publications of John Lever

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 John Lever

  • Godwin, Francis. The strange voyage and adventures of Domingo Gonsales, to the world in the moon. Containing an account of the Island of St. Hellena; the Place where he resided some Years in, and where he planned this Wonderful Voyage; his entering on Board one of the Homeward-Bound East-India Ships for Spain; their running on the Rocks near the Pike of Teneriff, to avoid an English Squadron of Ships, that were in Pursuit of the Spanish Fleet; Gonsales had just Time to fix his Machine, which carried him in Safety to the Pike of Teneriff, having rested his Gansas on the Mountain, whence was pursued by the Savages; when giving the Signal to his Birds, they arose in the Air with him for their Journey to the Moon: The wonderful Apparitions and Devils he met with in his Progress; their Temptations to him, which he avoided, and their supplying him with choice Provisions; his leaving this Hellish Crew, and proceedings on his Voyage to the Moon; his safe Arrival there; the Manners, Customs, and Language of the Em. The second edition.. London: printed by John Lever, Bookseller, Stationer, and Printseller, at Little Moorgate, next to London Wall, near Moorfields, [1768]. ESTC No. T90146. Grub Street ID 310000.

Sold by John Lever

  • The pleasant art of money-catching: treating I. Of the original invention of money. II. Of the misery of wanting it; &c. III. How Persons in straits for Money, may supply themselves with it. IV. A new Method for ordering of Expences. V. How to save Money in Diet, Apparel, and Recreations. VI. How a Man may always keep money in his pocket. Vii. How a Man may pay debts without money. Viii. How to travel without money. To which is added, the way how to turn a penny: OR, The Art of Thriving. With several other Things, both pleasant and profitable. The third edition, corrected and much enlarged.. London: printed and sold by John Lever, at Little Moorgate, next to London Wall, near Moorfields, [1782]. ESTC No. N20338. Grub Street ID 9736.

Printed for John Lever

  • Cockburn, John, Mariner. The unfortunate Englishmen: or, a faithful narrative of the distresses and adventures of John Cockburn, and five other English mariners, viz. Thomas Bounce, John Holland, Richard Banister, John Balman and Thomas Robinson. Who were taken by a Spanish Guarda Costa, in the John and Anne, Edward Burt, Master, and set on shore at a Place call'd Porto-Cavallo, naked and wounded. Containing A journey over Land from the Gulph of Honduras to the Great South Sea, wherein is some new and very useful Discoveries of the Inland of those almost unknown Parts of America. As also An Account of the Manners, Customs, and Behaviour of the several Indians inhabiting a Tract of Land of 2400 Miles; particularly of their Dispositions towards the Spaniards and English. The third edition.. London: printed for John Lever, at Little Moorgate, next to London Wall, near Moorfields, 1773. ESTC No. N32516. Grub Street ID 21132.