Publications of J. Downes

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. Downes

  • Association for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers (London, England).. Publications printed by order of the society for preserving liberty and property against Republicans and levellers, at the Crown and Anchor, in the Strand. Part the first. To which are prefixed the proceedings of the society. London: removed from the European Magazine warehouse, Cowper's Court, Cornhill. Now printed and sold by J. Downes, No. 240, in the Strand, near Temple Bar, where the Booksellers and Public may be supplied Wholesale and Retail. These publications in books only are sold by Messrs. Hookham and Carpenter, Bond-Street; J. Debrett, in Piccadilly; and J. Sewell, No. 32, Cornhill, MDCCXCIII. [1793]. ESTC No. T81894. Grub Street ID 302519.

Sold by J. Downes

Printed for J. Downes

  • The Letter of the Righ Hon. C.J. Fox, to the electors of Westminster, anatomized. London: Printed for J. Downes, No. 240, Strand, near Temple Bar, and sold by the booksellers, 1793. ESTC No. N34236. Grub Street ID 22645.