Publications of Benj. Dod

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 Benj. Dod

  • Phaedrus. Phædri Augusti liberti Fabularum æsopiarum libri quinque. Or, a correct Latin edition of the Fables of Phædrus: with a new literal English translation, and a copious parsing index; Whereby young Beginners may easily and speedily attain the Knowledge of the Latin Tongue. By a gentleman of the University of Cambridge. For the Use of Schools. Cambridge: printed by J. Bentham Printer to the University, for Benj. Dod, & John Ward, booksellers in London, and Tho. Merrill bookseller in Cambridge, M,DCC,LV. [1755]. ESTC No. T139984. Grub Street ID 187803.