Publications of N. Coverly
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:
- "printed by x"; or
- "sold by x"; or
- "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,":
- "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 for N. Coverly
- Lillo, George. The London merchant: or The history of George Barnwell. As it is acted at the theatres in England. By Mr. Lillo. [Two lines from the Old ballad of the lady's fall]. [Worcester, Mass.]: London, printed. Worcester, (Massachusetts) re-printed by I. Thomas, for N. Coverly, in Boston, MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]. ESTC No. W13641. Grub Street ID 322991.
Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by N. Coverly
- Hickey, Thomas. The last speech and dying words of Thomas Hickey, a soldier in the Continental Army, who was executed in a field near the city of New-York, on Friday June 28, 1776, for joining in sedition and of mutiny, and of treacheously [sic] corresponding with, inlisting, and receiving pay from the enemies of the united American colonies. Concord [Mass.]: Printed and sold by N. Coverly, by the groze, dozen or single, M,DCCLXXVI [1776]. ESTC No. W10315. Grub Street ID 319429.