Publications of John, Francis

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 John, Francis

  • Martin, Benjamin. Philosophia Britannica: or, a new and comprehensive system of the Newtonian philosophy, astronomy, and geography, in a course of twelve lectures, with notes; Containing the Physical, Mechanical, Geometrical, and Experimental Proofs and Illustrations of all the Principal Propositions in every Branch of Natural Science: Also, A particular Account of the Invention, Structure, Improvement and Uses of all the considerable Instruments, Engines, and Machines; With New Calculations relating to their Nature, Power, and Operation. The whole collected and methodized from all the principal authors, and Public Memoirs; and embellished with eighty-one copper-plates. By B. Martin. . The fourth edition. In three volumes. ... London: printed for John, Francis, Charles Rivington; and Thomas Carnan, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and Andrew Strahan, in New Street, M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]. ESTC No. N12259. Grub Street ID 2267.