Publications of Dodsley; Sewel

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 for Dodsley; Sewel

  • Hanway, Jonas. Virtue in humble life: containing reflections on relative duties, particularly those of masters and servants. Thoughts on the passions, prejudices, and tempers of mankind, drawn from real characters. Fables applicable to the subjects. Various anecdotes of the living and th dead: in Two Hundred and Nine conversations, Between a father and his daughter, amidst rural scenes. Intended as an amusing and instructive library to persons of certain conditions, and proper for all families seeking domestic peace and Christian piety: with a manual of devotion, comprehending extracts from the scriptures, prayers, hymns, religious poems, &c. In two volumes. Vol. I. The second edition, amply corrected, and enlarged an half part. By Jonas Hanway, Esq;. London: printed for Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; Sewel, near the Royal-Exchange; and Bew, in Pater-Noster-Row, M.DCC.LXXVII. [1777]. ESTC No. T93949. Grub Street ID 313572.