Publications of B. Flower

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 B. Flower

  • Chatterton, Thomas. Poems, supposed to have been written at Bristol, by Thomas Rowley, and others, in the fifteenth century. Cambridge: printed by B. Flower, for the editor; and sold by the printer; by J. and J. Merrill, and W. H. Lunn, Cambridge; by the booksellers of Bath and Bristol; and by Egerton, Military Library; Edwards, Pall-Mall; Debrett, Piccadilly; and Deighton, Holborn, London, 1794. ESTC No. T75380. Grub Street ID 298106.

Sold by B. Flower

  • An interpretation and illustration of the latter part of the Book of Revelations, beginning at chapter x. verse 5. endeavouring to prove therein an exact, regular, and circumstantial history of the French Revolution, and the present war; designed to demonstrate the truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ; but more particularly to prepare the world for his second coming, ... Cambridge: printed and sold by B. Flower, 1799. ESTC No. N17030. Grub Street ID 6534.