Publications of J. Mehain

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. Mehain

  • Combe, William. Additions to the Diaboliad, a poem. Dedicated to the worst man in His Majesty's dominions. By the same author. Dublin: printed by J. Mehain, for the United Company of Booksellers, 1777. ESTC No. T77117. Grub Street ID 299329.

Sold by J. Mehain

  • A short treatise on prayer. In which are considered, what prayer is, why our prayers are often fruitless, and the true method of prayer. Translated from the French, by the Reverend J. F-d, late P.P. of St. Michael's. Dublin: printed and sold by J. Mehain, 1787. ESTC No. T215943. Grub Street ID 241800.