Publications of Richard Preston

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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 Richard Preston

  • Rapin, RenĂ©. Reflections upon the eloquence of these times; particularly of the barr and pulpit. London: printed for Richard Preston in Turn-stile Alley in Holborn, 1672. ESTC No. R21189. Grub Street ID 87622.

Author

  • Preston, Richard. An elementary treatise, by way of essay, on the quantity of estates, &c. By Richard Preston, of Ashburton. Exeter: printed for the author, by Messrs. Trewman and Son, M,DCC,XCI. [1791]. ESTC No. T66124. Grub Street ID 290934.
  • Preston, Richard. A succinct view of the rule in Shelley's case; exhibiting by negative and affirmative propositions, the instances in which several limitations, one to the Ancestor, the other to the Heirs,-The Heirs of the Body,-or Issue of the Body of that Person, do and do not give the inheritance to the ancestor. By Richard Preston, Of the Inner Temple, Author of the Elementary Treatise on the Quantity of Estates. London: printed for the author, and sold by W. Clarke and Son, Portugal-Street, Lincoln's-Inn; E. and R. Brooke, Bell-Yard, Temple-Bar; and R. Pheney. Inner-Temple-Gate, MDCCXCIV. [1794]. ESTC No. N24545. Grub Street ID 13900.
  • Preston, Richard. A succinct view of the rule in Shelley's case; exhibiting, by negative and affirmative propositions, the instances in which several limitations, one to the Ancestor, the other to the Heirs,-The Heirs of the Body,-or Issue of the Body of that Person, do and do not give the inheritance to the ancestor. By Richard Preston, of the Inner Temple, Author of the Elementary Treatise on the Quantity of Estates. Exeter: printed for the author, by Trewman and Son, M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]. ESTC No. T66156. Grub Street ID 290961.
  • Preston, Richard. Tracts on I. The definition and nature of cross remainders. II. Fines and recoveries by tenant in tail. III. Difference between merger, remitter and extinguishment. IV. Estates Executed, Executory, Vested and Contingent. V. Contingencies with a Double Aspect. VI. The succession by a Parent to a Child. Vii. The language of powers. By Richard Preston, Esq. of the Inner Temple: Author of the elementary Treatise on Estates, and succinct view of the Rule in Shelley's Case. London: printed for R. Pheney, Inner Temple Lane, Fleet Street, 1797. ESTC No. T65053. Grub Street ID 289988.