Publications of Dodsley; Sewell

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; Sewell

  • Hanway, Jonas. The citizen's monitor: shewing the necessity of a salutary police, executed by resolute and judicious magistrates, Assisted by the pious labours of zealous Clergymen, For the Preservation of the Lives and Properties of the People, And the happy Existence of the State. With observations on the late tumults, the merits of the soldiery, and the London Volunteer Police Guard. In twenty-nine letters. By Jonas Hanway, Esquire. London: printed for Dodsley, in Pall Mall; Sewell near the Royal Exchange; and Bew, in Pater-Noster Row, M.DCC.LXXX [1780]. ESTC No. T93953. Grub Street ID 313576.