Publications of Francis Douglas

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 Francis Douglas

  • A dissertation on the chief obstacles to the improvement of land, and introducing better methods of agriculture throughout Scotland. Aberdeen: printed by Francis Douglas, and sold at his shop in the End of the Broadgate; by C. Hitch and L. Hawes London, and by all the booksellers in Scotland, MDCCLX. [1760]. ESTC No. T68829. Grub Street ID 292972.

Sold by Francis Douglas

  • Watts, Isaac. The young child's first and second catechism of the principles of religion ... By Isaac Watts ... Aberdeen: printed and sold by Francis Douglas, 1759. ESTC No. T179944. Grub Street ID 216641.

Printed for Francis Douglas

  • A collection of the most approved receipts, for pastry viz. bread pastes baken meat seed-cake plumb-cake sugar biscuits preserves marmalades jellies confections. Aberdeen: printed for Francis Douglas, 1750. ESTC No. T195661. Grub Street ID 229284.