Publications of George Jerry

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 George Jerry

  • Portsmouth, April 15th, 1791. Catalogue of books to be sold by auction, at Col. Brewster's coffee-house-tavern. Sale to be on Tuesday, the 26th instant, at ten o'clock, A.M. [Portsmouth, N.H.]: Printed by George Jerry Osborne [..], [1791]. ESTC No. W10271. Grub Street ID 319384.

Sold by George Jerry

  • Osborne's New-Hampshire register: with an almanack, for the year 1788. Calculated for the meridian of Portsmouth. [Eight lines of verse]. Portsmouth: Printed and sold by George Jerry Osborne, near the State-House, Congress-Street, [1787]. ESTC No. W11486. Grub Street ID 320683.

Printed for George Jerry

  • Seabury, Samuel. A discourse, delivered in St. John's Church, in Portsmouth, Newhampshire, at the conferring the order of priesthood on the Rev. Robert Fowle, A.M. of Holderness. On the festival of St. Peter, 1791. By the Right Rev. Samuel Seabury, D.D. Bishop of Connecticut. [Three line of Scripture texts]. Printed at Boston: by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, Faust's Statue, no. 45, Newbury Street. For George Jerry Osborne, Jun. printer, in Portsmouth, MDCCXCI. [1791]. ESTC No. W38033. Grub Street ID 348842.