Publications of John Butler

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 John Butler

  • Philo-militum.. The case of the infantry in Ireland. Humbly addressed to the Right Honourable Richard, Lord Viscount Molesworth; general and commander in chief; and to the general officers on the establishment in Ireland. Dublin: printed by John Butler, on Cork-Hill, MDCCLIII. [1753]. ESTC No. T93418. Grub Street ID 313119.

Printed for John Butler

  • Cooke, Thomas. Work-houses the best charity: a sermon preacht at the Cathedral Church of Worcester, February 2d 1702. By Thomas Cooke Master of Arts, and Rector of St. Nicholas, in the City of Worcester. Publisht at the request of the mayor and aldermen. London: printed for John Butler, bookseller in Worcester, and sold by most booksellers in London and Westminster, [1702?]. ESTC No. T12026. Grub Street ID 171447.