Publications of G. Cawthorn

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 G. Cawthorn

  • Wood, John. Elements of perspective; containing the nature of light and colours, and the theory and practice of perspective, in regard to lines, surfaces, and solids, with its application to architecture. To which are added rules for painting in transparent water colours. By John Wood Master of the Drawing Academy Established at Edinburgh by the Honourable the Board of Trustees for Manufactories, &c. London: printed for G. Cawthorn, British Library, No. 132, Strand, Bookseller to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales: Messrs. Richardson, Royal-Exchange; H.D. Symonds, J. Wallis, West and Hughes, Paternoster-Row; J. Wright, Piccadilly; and P. Hill, Edinburgh, 1799. ESTC No. T113885. Grub Street ID 165749.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by G. Cawthorn

  • Douglas, James. The history of Julia D'Haumont: or the eventful connection of the house of Montmelian with that of D'Haumont. By the Rev. James Douglas, of Chiddingford, Sussex. Vol. I. London: printed and sold by G. Cawthorn, British Library, 132, Strand, 1797. ESTC No. T65080. Grub Street ID 290000.