Publications of James Dover

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 James Dover

  • Jacob, Joseph. Desolations decypher'd and the kingdom of Christ discover'd. In a second discourse upon Ezekiel xxi. Ver. 27. ... By Joseph Jacob. London: printed by James Dover, 1705. ESTC No. T99572. Grub Street ID 318674.

Printed for James Dover

  • Schomberg, Friedrich Hermann Schomberg. An order published by the command of the Duke of Schonberg, in the camp at Dundalk, for establishing the rates and prizes of provisions in the army. Licens'd October 24. 1689. J.F. London: Printed for James Dover, near West-Smithfield, 1689. ESTC No. R32129. Grub Street ID 114872.