Publications of B. Seeley

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 B. Seeley

  • Gilpin, William. A dialogue upon the gardens of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham, at Stow in Buckinghamshire. The second edition corrected.. London: printed for B. Seeley, bookseller in Buckingham, and sold by J. and J. Rivington, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCXLIX. [1749]. ESTC No. N28737. Grub Street ID 17942.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by B. Seeley

  • Stowe: a description of the house and gardens of the most noble and puissant prince, George Grenville Nugent Temple, Marquis of Buckingham, Earl Temple, Viscount and Baron Cobham, Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, One of the four Tellers of his Majesty's Exchequer, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the County of Buckingham, Colonel of the Militia for the said County; One of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, And Lord Lieutenant General, and General Governor of the Kingdom of Ireland. A new edition, with all the alterations and improvements that have been made therein, to the present time. Embellished with a general plan of the gardens, and also a separate plan of the house, and of each building, with Perspective Views of the same. Buckingham: printed and sold by B. Seeley, sold also by G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Pater-Noster Row, London; and T. Hodgkinson, at the New Inn at Stowe, 1788. ESTC No. T70901. Grub Street ID 294541.