Publications of T. French

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 T. French

  • Lupton, Thomas. A thousand notable things, on various subjects; disclosed from the secrets of nature and art ; practicable, profitable, and of great advantage; ... down from long and curious study and experience, for the greater part; and the rest taken from the most judicious and celebrated authors of the Ancients and Moderns. Being a rich Cabinet of select Curiosities and Rarities, in one volume, digested into fourteen books, for the general use and good of Mankind; with strict amendments, and large additions, to what formerly has been published in this kind; exceeding any other for the multitude of pleasing variety herein to be found. London: printed for T. French, & W. Millar, MDCCXCV. [1795]. ESTC No. T120558. Grub Street ID 171578.