Publications of Messrs. Payne

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 Messrs. Payne

  • Strange, John. Reports of adjudged cases in the Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, from Trinity term in the second year of King George I. to Trinity term in the twenty-first year of King George II. Taken and collected by the Right Honourable Sir John Strange, Knt. Late Master of the Rolls. Published by his Son, John Strange, of the Middle Temple, Esq; Revised and Corrected, with References to all the contemporary Reporters; and other Improvements. . The second edition, revised and corrected, with references ... London: printed by the King's Law-Printers; for Messrs. Payne, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Longman, W. Strahan, P. Uriel, B. Tovey, G. Robinson, W. Otridge, T, Cadell. E. Brooke, Messrs. Richardson and Urquhart, J. Bew, T. Whieldon, and S. Hayes, MDCCLXXXII. [1782]. ESTC No. N12812. Grub Street ID 2784.