Publications of J. Downing

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. Downing

  • Stubs, Philip. Of laying on of hands. A sermon upon the Holy office of confirmation, according to the order of the Church of England, ... The fourth edition, with additions. By Philip Stubbs; . London: printed by J. Downing; and sold by John Penn, 1717. ESTC No. T73775. Grub Street ID 296980.

Sold by J. Downing

  • Woodward, Josiah. An account of the progress of the reformation of manners, in England & Ireland, and other parts of the world. With Reasons and Directions for our Engaging in this Glorious Work. In a letter to a friend. The fifth edition.. London: printed, and are to be sold by J. Downing; and D. Brown, 1701. ESTC No. T138874. Grub Street ID 186741.

Printed for J. Downing

  • One of the Secretaries to the Inquisition.. The history of the inquisition: With an account of the cruelties exercised therein. Written by one of the secretaries to the inquisition. London: Printed for J. Downing in Bartholomew-Close near West-Smithfield; and J. Baker at the Black-Bay in Pater-Noster-Row, 1713. ESTC No. T194916. Grub Street ID 228731.