Publications of R. Horsfield

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 for R. Horsfield

  • LinnĂ©, Carl von. Institutions of entomology: being a translation of Linnaeus's Ordines et genera insectorum; or, systematic arrangement of insects. Collated with the different systems of Geoffroy, Schaeffer and Scopoli; together with observations of the translator. By Thomas Pattinson Yeats. London: printed for R. Horsfield, No. 12, Ludgate street, MDCCLXXIII [1773]. ESTC No. N16970. Grub Street ID 6468.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by R. Horsfield

  • Mason, William. Elfrida, a dramatic poem. Written on the model of the ancient Greek tragedy. By W. Mason, M.A. The ninth edition.. London: printed and sold by R. Horsfield, in Ludgate Street; T. Cadell, in the Strand, and W. Tesseyman, at York, MDCCLXXIII. [1773]. ESTC No. T96181. Grub Street ID 315649.