Publications of B. Briggs

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."

Sold by B. Briggs

  • Bisset, William. Remarks on Dr. Sach------'s sermon at the cathedral of St. Paul, Novemb. 5. Being design'd as a seasonable antidote against the spreading malignity of that pestilent discourse. By William Bisset, eldest brother of the Collegiate Church of St. Katherine. London: s.n., 1709. ESTC No. T203526. Grub Street ID 234087.

Printed for B. Briggs

  • Sophia. A letter from Her Royal Highness, the Princess Sophia, Electress of Brunswic & Luneburg, to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. With another from Hannover, written by Sir Rowland Gwynne to the Right Honourable the Earl of Stamford. London: Printed for B. Briggs, 1706. ESTC No. N2054. Grub Street ID 9940.