Publications of James Humphreys

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 Humphreys

  • Yorke, Samuel. Drugs & medicines. On Tuesday afternoon, at two o'clock, at the auction store, will be sold, an invoice of fresh drugs and medicines ... [Philadelphia]: Printed by James Humphreys, No. 106, south side of Market-Street, [1800]. ESTC No. W10216. Grub Street ID 319324.

Sold by James Humphreys

  • Wettenhall, Edward. Graecae grammaticae institutio compendiaria. In usum scholarum. Autore Edv. Wettenhal, D.D. Nuper Episcopo Kilmore, & Ardag. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by James Humphreys, Junr, M,DCC,LXXVI. [1776]. ESTC No. W12482. Grub Street ID 321755.

Printed for James Humphreys

  • Burke, Edmund. A letter from the Rt. Honourable Edmund Burke to His Grace the Duke of Portland, on the conduct of the minority in Parliament. Containing fifty-four articles of impeachment against the Rt. Hon. C.J. Fox. From the original copy, in the possession of the noble duke. [Philadelphia]: London: printed. Philadelphia: re-printed for James Humphreys, no. 74, North Third-Street, the corner of Cherry Alley, 1797. ESTC No. W36401. Grub Street ID 347116.