Publications of H. Kent

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 H. Kent

  • Bate, James. Infidelity scourged: or, Christianity vindicated. I. From the scandalous aspersions of Mr. Thomas Chubb, in his four late dissertations, viz. 1. On Melchizedek. 2. On Jacob and Esau. 3. On Balaam. 4. On the Extirpation of the Canaanites. II. From the sophistry of a late book called, Christianity not founded on argument. Containing a full, clear, and ('tis hoped) a satisfactory answer, to some of the most popular objections to revelation, more especially those that concern the History of the Old Testament; and establishing such Principles as may enable even an unlearned Reader, to answer most other Objections of like sort. By James Bate, M.A. Rector and Lecturer of St. Paul's, Deptsord. Formerly Fellow of St. John's, Cambridge; and Chaplain to Mr. Walpole, his Majesty's Ambassador at Paris. London: printed by H. Kent; and sold by J. Roberts, at the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, MDCCXLVI. [1746]. ESTC No. T89322. Grub Street ID 309232.

Sold by H. Kent

  • Pic, Jean. The dream of Alcibiades. Translated from the Greek, and adapted to the customs, manners, diversions, and principal characters, of the present age, as much as can be, without deviating from the sense of the original. The second edition. Dedicated to the right honourable John Earl of Granville. London: printed and sold by H. Kent; and by the booksellers and pamphlet-shops of London and Westminster, 1750. ESTC No. N49641. Grub Street ID 33823.

Printed for H. Kent

  • Townley, James. A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor, ... in the Cathedral church of St. Paul, on Thursday, November 29, 1759; ... By James Townley,. London: printed for H. Kent; T. Field; and J. Walter, 1759. ESTC No. T47808. Grub Street ID 275778.