Publications of J. Dean

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 J. Dean

  • Defoe, Daniel. The life of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner. Congleton: printed by J. Dean, [1785?]. ESTC No. T72323. Grub Street ID 295864.

Sold by J. Dean

  • An excellent garland; containing four new songs. 1. The vestry dinner. 2. The wooing days. 3. The blind sailor. 4. The soldier's adieu. Congleton: printed and sold by J. Dean, [1800?]. ESTC No. N31426. Grub Street ID 20314.

Printed for J. Dean

  • Larkin, George. The visions of John Bunyan; being his last remains: giving an account of the glories of heaven, the terrors of hell and of the world to come. Congleton: printed for J. Dean, [1750?]. ESTC No. N63186. Grub Street ID 45401.