Publications of Henry Barber

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 Henry Barber

  • Washington, George. To the people of the United States. Friends and fellow citizens, The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant ... I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered ... Newport (R.I.): Printed by Henry Barber, [1796]. ESTC No. W10672. Grub Street ID 319809.

Printed for Henry Barber

  • The North-American calendar: or, The Rhode-Island almanack, for the year of our Lord 1783 ... calculated for the meridian of Providence, in New-England, lat. 41? 51' n. and lon. 71? 16' w. but will serve, without sensible error, for any of the neighbouring states. By Benjamin West, A.M. A.A.S. [Four lines of verse quotation]. Providence (Rhode-Island): Printed by Bennett Wheeler, for Henry Barber, and sold by him at his office on the Parade, Newport, [1782]. ESTC No. W26671. Grub Street ID 336729.