Publications of Nathaniel Patten

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 Nathaniel Patten

Sold by Nathaniel Patten

  • We the people, of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general werlfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establis this Constitution for the United States of America. Hartford: Printed and sold by Nathaniel Patten, M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]. ESTC No. W13931. Grub Street ID 323297.

Printed for Nathaniel Patten

  • Dilworth, Thomas. The schoolmaster's assistant, being a compendium of arithmetic both practical and theoretical. In five parts ... By Thomas Dilworth ... New-London: (Connecticut.): Printed by Samuel Green, for Nathaniel Patten, Hartford, 1798. ESTC No. W23053. Grub Street ID 332935.