Publications of George Riley

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 George Riley

  • Wynne, John Huddlestone. Choice emblems, natural, historical, fabulous, moral and divine, for the improvement and pastime of youth. Ornamented with near fifty handsome allegorical engravings, Designed on purpose for this Work. With pleasing and familiar Descriptions to each, in Prose and Verse, Serving to display the Beauties and Morals of the Ancient Fabulists. The whole calculated to convey the golden Lessons of Instruction under a new and more delightful Dress. Written for the Amusement of The Right Honourable Lord Newbattle. London: printed for George Riley, in Curzon Street, May Fair, MD,CC,LXXII. [1772]. ESTC No. T108869. Grub Street ID 161716.