Publications of James Blair

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 James Blair

  • Acts for disabling Alexander Wilson Esq; from being lord provost of Edinburgh. And for bringing to justice the murderers of captain John Porteous. [Edinburgh: printed by James Blair and John Nairn, 1737]. ESTC No. N50769. Grub Street ID 34798.

Author

  • Blair, James. A paraphrase on our Saviour's divine sermon on the mount: Contained in the V, VI, and VII. chapters of St. Matthew's Gospel. Previous to a larger exposition thereof in CXVII. Sermons, shortly to be published. By James Blair, A.M. commissary of Virginia, president of William and Mary College, and rector of Williamsburgh in that colony. London: Printed for J. Brotherton, at the Bible in Cornhill; and J. Downing, in Bartholomew-Close, 1722. ESTC No. T170566. Grub Street ID 208257.
  • Blair, James. Our Saviour's divine sermon on the mount, contain'd in the Vth, VIth, and VIIth chapters of St. Matthew's Gospel, explained, and the practice of it recommended in diverse sermons and discourses, ... To which is prefix'd, A paraphrase on the whole sermon on the mount. By James Blair, M.A. commissary of Virginia, President of William and Mary College, and rector of Williamsburgh in that Colony. London: printed for J. Brotherton, at the Bible in Cornhill, MDCCXXII. [-MDCCXXIII] [1722-1723]. ESTC No. T130249. Grub Street ID 179415.
  • Blair, James. Our Saviour's divine sermon on the mount. Contain'd in the Vth, VIth, and VIIth chapters of St. Matthew's Gospel, explained; and the practice of it recommended in divers sermons and discourses. ... To which is prefix'd, A paraphrase on the whole sermon on the mount. By James Blair, . London: printed for J. Brotherton, 1724. ESTC No. N42286. Grub Street ID 28626.
  • Blair, James. A paraphrase on our Saviour's sermon on the mount, contained in ... St. Mathew's Gospel; of singular use, both in schools and families, ... By James Blair, . London: printed for John Booth, 1729. ESTC No. N24195. Grub Street ID 13551.
  • Blair, James. Our saviour's divine Sermon on the mount, contain'd in the Vth, VIth, and VIIth chapters of St. Matthew's Gospel, explained: and the practice of it recommended in divers sermons and discourses. In four volumes. ... By James Blair, ... The second edition. With a recommendatory preface by the Reverend Dr. Waterland. London: printed for J. Brotherton; and J. Oswald, 1740. ESTC No. T138629. Grub Street ID 186494.