Publications of John Townsend

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 John Townsend

  • Stebbing, Henry. A collection of tracts, published between the years 1729 and 1759, In the defence and explanation of Christianity and its evidence. By Henry Stebbing, D.D. late chancellor of Sarum. Improved and prepared for the press by the author, and now republished: By Henry Stebbing, D.D. Morning preacher to the Hon. Society of Gray's Inn. London: Printed for John Townsend, in London-Street, Mark-Lane, MDCCLXVI. [1766]. ESTC No. T151040. Grub Street ID 196572.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by John Townsend

  • Clarke, Richard. Signs of times, or, a voice to Babylon, the great city of the world; and to the Jews in particular: To whom the Messiah is proved to have been the Son of the Woman before the Fall of Adam; at which Time he became from the Womb of his Mother, the Nazarite: Rev. xii. 5, 6, 7. Dan. vii. 13, 14. A Testimony by the Spirit of Prophecy to their Conversion near at hand, and to the great Sabbatical Year, when all Nations, Languages, Kindreds and Peoples will serve the Lord and his Christ under the Cloud of Glory. On which Cloud a Discourse is subjoined from 1 Cor. x. I-4. By the Rev. Mr. Clarke, Lecturer of Stoke Newington, and Curate of Hackney. London: printed and sold by John Townsend, in London street, [1773]. ESTC No. T84851. Grub Street ID 305200.