Publications of Joseph White

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 Joseph White

  • Selden, John. Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, Esq. or his sense of various matters of Weight and High Consequence. relating especially to religion and state. A new edition. To which is added, the life of the author.. London: printed for Joseph White, Holborn, M,DCC,LXXXVI. [1786]. ESTC No. T108836. Grub Street ID 161682.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by Joseph White

  • Osgood, Joseph. An almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1801. ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, in New-England, lat. 42 deg. 23 min. north. By Joseph Osgood, philom. Boston: Printed and sold by Joseph White, near Charles' River Bridge, [1800?]. ESTC No. W11488. Grub Street ID 320685.