Publications of Joseph Rhames

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 Joseph Rhames

  • A system of rhetoric, in a method entirely new. Containing all the tropes and figures necessary to illustrate the classics, both Poetical and Historical. To render which more generally useful, The Whole is divided into two Parts; in the first of which the Rules are given in English, in the second in Latin Verse; below which are placed proper Examples in each Language; and at the Bottom of the Page are the Terms translated in the one, and their Derivations from the Greek, in the other. For the Use of Schools. By John Stirling, M. A. Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Gordon. Dublin: printed by Joseph Rhames, Bookseller, at Tillonson's-Head in Capel-Street, 1744. ESTC No. T90626. Grub Street ID 310469.

Printed for Joseph Rhames

  • Mathews, Thomas. Original letters and papers, between Adm-------l M--------ws, and V. Adm-----l L-----k. With several letters from private hands. Exhibiting Many Particulars hitherto unknown of the Transactions in the Mediterranean. With Remarks on, and Answers to the Narrative of the Fleet, from 1741 to 1744. Especially on the Author's Partiality and great Liberties with the Characters of some Commanders. Also, some observations on the conduct of the Brest Fleet, &c. Dublin: printed by Margt. Rhames, for Joseph Rhames, Bookseller, at Tillotson's-Head in Capel-Street, 1744. ESTC No. N11036. Grub Street ID 1030.