Publications of Manning &

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 Manning &

  • Keate, George. An account of the Pelew Islands, situated in the western part of the Pacific Ocean. Composed from the journals and communications of Captain Henry Wilson, and some of his officers, who, in August, 1783, were there shipwrecked, in the Antelope, a packet belonging to the Hon. East India Company. By George Keate, Esq. F.R.S. and S.A. Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, for S. Hall, W. Spotswood, J. White, Thomas & Andrews, D. West, E. Larkin, W.P. Blake, and J. West, 1796. ESTC No. W10123. Grub Street ID 319222.

Sold by Manning &

  • Spaulding, Mary. A remarkable narrative of Mary Spaulding, daughter of Benjamin Spaulding, of Chelmsford. She has been visited with frequent sicknesses, and obtained remarkable recoveries; and the whole account is taken from records kept by herself, and is now submitted to the public. [Two lines from I Samuel]. Boston: Printed and sold by Manning & Loring, in Spring-Lane, --1795. ESTC No. W21764. Grub Street ID 331552.