Publications of George Nicholson

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 Nicholson

  • Potter, T. Moral tales. The shrubbery, & the triumph of beauty, by T. Potter. Ludlow: printed and sold by George Nicholson, Ludlow. Sold also by T. Knott; and Champante and Whitrow, London; Anno, 1800. ESTC No. T73688. Grub Street ID 296943.

Sold by George Nicholson

  • Gray, Thomas. Poems by Thomas Gray, LL.B. containing odes, epitaphs, elegy, &c. &c. With the life of the author. [Ludlow]: Printed and sold by George Nicholson, College, Ludlow. Sold also by T. Knott, 47, Lombard-Street; and Champante and Whitrow, 4, Jewry-Street, Aldgate, London; and all other booksellers. Anno, 1799. ESTC No. N11878. Grub Street ID 1880.

Printed for George Nicholson

  • Catlow, Samuel. A sermon on education, including a display of parental duty, and the proper objects of liberal instruction: preached before a society of protestant dissenters at Bradford, Yorks. June 28th 1789, ... affixed to which are the outlines of a plan of education, established at Mansfield. By S. Catlow. [Bradford]: Printed for the author by George Nicholson, Bradford, and sold in London by J. Johnson, & T. Knott, [1789]. ESTC No. N62666. Grub Street ID 44962.