Publications of Laurence Chalmers

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 Laurence Chalmers

  • Boston, Thomas. The whole works of the late Reverend and learned Mr. Thomas Boston. Minister of the Gospel at Etterick. Containing, I. Human Nature in its Fourfold State. II. A View of the Covenant of Grace from the sacred Records; with a Memorial concerning Fasting. III. Several Sermons on Afflictions, and the Nature of Church-Communion. IV. An Explication of the first Part of the Assembly's Shorter Catechism. V. Miscellany Questions and Tracts; with a Paraphrase on the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians. VI. Sermons on various important Subjects, from twenty-five different Texts of Scripture. Vii. Sermons on the Everlasting Espousals, the Mystery of Christ in the Form of a Servant, the peculiar Advantage and Business of Life, and the Evil and Danger of Schism. Viii. Sermons on the Throne of Grace. Dundee: printed by Laurence Chalmers, for Robert Nicoll Bookseller, and sold by him at his Shop, opposite to the Cross, M,DCC,LXXIII. [1773]. ESTC No. T75151. Grub Street ID 297930.

Sold by Laurence Chalmers

  • Wesley, John. A calm address to our American colonies. By John Wesley, M.A. Dundee: printed and sold by Laurence Chalmers, 1775. ESTC No. N28556. Grub Street ID 17778.