Publications of Charles Davis

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 Charles Davis

  • Wicquefort, Abraham de. The rights, privileges, and office of embassadors and publick ministers. Illustrated with Historical Narrations of the most important Affairs that have been transacted by them through all the Courts of Europe, And A General View of the most celebrated Treaties. To which is added, A Discourse Concerning The Succession in the German Empire; With Remarks on the Golden Bull of Charles IV, which regulated the Number of Electors: And A Short Account of their several Principalities. Correcting the Mistakes of Mons. de Thou, and other the most celebrated Historians. By Mons. de Wicquefort, Privy Counsellor to the Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, Zell, &c. Translated into English by Mr. Digby. The second edition.. London: printed for Charles Davis, in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXL. [1740]. ESTC No. N12957. Grub Street ID 2919.