Publications of T. Truman

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 by T. Truman

  • An Account of the apparition of the late Lord Kilmarnock, to the Revd. Mr. Fuster. With what passed between them in the interview the next morning after his execution. London: Printed by T. Truman near Cornhill, [1750?]. ESTC No. T68769. Grub Street ID 292914.

Printed for T. Truman

  • De la Motte, Francis Henry. The life and trial of F. H. de la Motte, a French spy, for high treason, at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey, on Saturday the 14th of July 1781, and was hang'd, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn, on Friday the 27th following. Taken in short hand by J. Williams, Esq. of the Temple. London: printed for T. Truman, in the Strand, and to be had of the booksellers in town and country, [1781]. ESTC No. T198801. Grub Street ID 231257.