Publications of George Cecil

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 George Cecil

  • Sterling, Joseph. Bombarino, a romance: with poems on the four sister arts, viz. eloquence, poetry, painting, and music: and other miscellaneous poems. By Joseph Sterling, T. C. D. Dublin: printed by George Cecil, MDCCLXVIII. [1768]. ESTC No. T69570. Grub Street ID 293537.

Printed for George Cecil

  • Burlamaqui, (Jean Jacques). J. J. The principles of natural law. By J. J. Burlamaqui, Counsellor of State, and late Professor of Natural and Civil Law at Geneva. Translated into English by Mr. Nugent. Dublin: printed for J. Sheppard, in Skinner Row, and by, and for George Cecil, at the University Printing Office, M,DCC,LXIX. [1769]. ESTC No. N20839. Grub Street ID 10217.