Publications of Osborn, and

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 Osborn, and

  • Acherley, Roger. The Britannic constitution: or, The fundamental form of government in Britain. Demonstrating, the original contract entred into by King and people, according to the primary institutions thereof, in this nation. Wherein is proved, that the placing on the throne King William III. was the natural fruit and effect of the original constitution. And that the succession to this crown, establish'd in the present Protestant heirs, is de jure, and justify'd, by the fundamental laws of Great Britain. And many important original powers and privileges, of both Houses of Parliament, are exhibited. By Roger Acherley, Esquire, of the Inner-Temple, London. London: printed [by Samuel Richardson] for A. Bettesworth, J. Osborn, and T. Longman, in Pater-Noster-Row; W. and J. Innys, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; W. Mears, and D. Browne, without Temple-Bar; J. Stevens, and T. Woodward, in Fleetstreet; R. Ford, in the Poultry; E. Symon, the Corner of Pope's Head Alley, in Cornhill; J. Stagg, in Westminster Hall; and S. Billingsley, in Chancery Lane, M.DCC.XXVII. [1727]. ESTC No. T86829. Grub Street ID 306933.