Publications of John Allan

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 Allan

  • Church of England.. An illustration of the Book of common-prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England. In which The Observations of all the Learned Divines, who have wrote upon any Part of it, are included and inserted in their proper Order; With further Explanations by the Compiler. The whole Containing A full and particular Exposition of all the Prayers, Epistles, and Gospels throughout the Year; Notes on all the Rubricks; an Account of all the Festivals and Saints-Days; of the antient Use of Liturgies, of Lessons, of Calendars, and their Regulation under the late Act of Parliament; of Psalmody, of Churches, of Ornaments, &c. Likewise An Exposition of the Communion-Service, Rites of Baptism, Catechism, Form of Matrimony, Visitation of the Sick, Burial of the Dead, &c. With A Paraphrase on all the Psalms, according to the Translation used in the Common-Prayer-Book. Very Useful for Families, To excite Devotion, and enable every One to pray with the Un. London: printed for John Allan, and James Hodges, on London-Bridge, M.DCC.LIV. [1754] [1752-53]. ESTC No. T87378. Grub Street ID 307426.