Publications of John Brocas

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 John Brocas

  • Synge, Edward. The wisdom of being religious. A sermon preach'd before His Grace James Duke of Ormond, Lord-Lieutenant General, and General Governor of Ireland, at the Castle-Chappel in Dublin; February the 20th, 1703/4. By Edward Synge, ... Dublin: printed by John Brocas, for John Forster, 1704. ESTC No. T85752. Grub Street ID 306037.

Sold by John Brocas

  • The estate of the late King James, in the barony of Barrymore and county of Cork; being a fee simple estate, consisting of the farms and lands following, will be expos'd to sale at Chichester-House, Dublin; on Saturday the 20th day of February, 1702. By cant to the best bidder. Dublin: printed and sold by John Brocas, 1702 [i.e.1703]. ESTC No. T153997. Grub Street ID 198191.

Printed for John Brocas

  • Nicholson, Edward. The popish false notion of the Catholick church, briefly consider'd; with a short account of the dangerous usurpations, ... and practices of popery. By Edward Nicholson author of the Short view of transubstantiation. Dublin: printed for John Brocas, 1707. ESTC No. N65067. Grub Street ID 46998.