Publications of R. Draper

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 R. Draper

  • Acts and laws, passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of His Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England: begun and held at Boston, in the county of Suffolk upon Wednesday the twenty-fifth day of May 1768. [Boston: Printed by R. Draper and Green and Russell, 1768]. ESTC No. W14950. Grub Street ID 324407.

Sold by R. Draper

  • Blazing-stars messengers of God's wrath: in a few serious and solemn meditations upon the wonderful comet: which now appears in our horizon, April, 1759: together with a solemn c[a]ll to sinners, and coun[sel] to saints; how to behave themselves wh[en] God is in this wise speaking to them from heaven. Boston: Printed and sold by R. Draper in Newbury-Street; and by Fowle & Draper in Marlborough-Street, 1759. ESTC No. W1575. Grub Street ID 325228.

Printed for R. Draper

  • Dilworth, Thomas. A new guide to the English tongue: In five parts. ... The whole, being recommended by several clergymen and eminent school-masters. By Thomas Dilworth. Boston: Printed by Kneeland and Adams, in Milk-Street, for R. Draper in Newbury-Street, 1768. ESTC No. W10207. Grub Street ID 319314.