Publications of F. Bailey

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 F. Bailey

  • Reed, Joseph. The following paper having been much misrepresented by some persons in this city, I have thought proper to publish it, for the perusal of all my fellow-citizens ... Philadelphia: Printed by F. Bailey, in Market-Street, [1781]. ESTC No. W10642. Grub Street ID 319777.

Sold by F. Bailey

  • Dilworth, Thomas. A new guide to the English tongue: In five parts. ... The whole being recommended, by several clergymen and eminent schoolmasters, as the most useful performance for the instruction of youth. By Thomas Dilworth, author of The schoolmaster's assistant, Young book-keeper's assistant, &c. &c. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by F. Bailey, at Yorick's Head, no. 116, High-Street, [between 1786 and 1789]. ESTC No. W35316. Grub Street ID 346018.