Publications of James Johnston

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 Johnston

  • Georgia. By the Honourable Lyman Hall, Esquire ... a proclamation. Whereas, in order to preserve peace, and maintain a friendly intercourse and a good understanding with the Indians of the Creek and Cherokee nations, it is necessary to avoid any encroachments upon the land allotted to them for their hunting grounds ... Given under my hand ... at Augusta, this thirteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three ... [Savannah: Printed by James Johnston, 1783]. ESTC No. W10619. Grub Street ID 319757.

Sold by James Johnston

  • Zubly, John Joachim. The faithful minister's course finished: a funeral sermon, preached August the 4th, 1773, in the meeting at Midway in Georgia, at the interment of the Rev. John Osgood, A.M. Minister of that congregation, by J.J. Zubly, Minister of an English and German congregation at Savannah. [Two lines of quotations]. Savannah: Printed and sold by James Johnston, MDCCLXXIII. [1773]. ESTC No. W17848. Grub Street ID 327419.

Printed for James Johnston

  • Enfield, William. Biographical sermons: or, a series of discourses on the principal characters in Scripture. By William Enfield, LL.D. London: printed for James Johnston, 1777. ESTC No. N63252. Grub Street ID 45465.