Publications of N. Rollason

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 N. Rollason

  • Jesse, William. Parochialia; or observations on the discharge of parochial duties, in which defects and errors are pointed out and Improvements suggested and recommended to The Parochial Clergy: in seventeen letters to Clericus With remarks on a Letter containing Strictures on a Discourse lately preached in Bewdley Chapel. By W. Jesse, Rector of Dowles, And Chaplain to the Earl of Glasgow. Kidderminster: printed by N. Rollason; and sold by G.G.J. and J. Robinson, No. 25, Pater-Noster-Row; J. Rivington and Sons, St. Paul's Church-Yard; Vallance and Simmons, Cheapside, London; and Pearson and Rollason, Birmingham, [1785]. ESTC No. T92473. Grub Street ID 312259.

Sold by N. Rollason

  • Metastasio, Pietro. Poems, translated from the Italian of Metastasio. Coventry: printed and sold by N. Rollason; sold also by Robson and Clarke, London; Cooke, Oxford, and all other booksellers, M,DCC,XC. [1790]. ESTC No. T124088. Grub Street ID 174355.