Publications of Peter Stewart

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 Peter Stewart

  • Brown, John. Dying advices to the associate congregation of Haddington. By the Rev. Mr. John Brown, their late Pastor. Philadelphia: Printed by Peter Stewart, on the west side of Second-Street, the ninth door above Chesnut-Street, M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]. ESTC No. W10724. Grub Street ID 319866.

Sold by Peter Stewart

  • Boston, Thomas. Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses. By that eminently pious and learned Mr. Thomas Boston, late Minister of the Gospel at Ettrick. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Peter Stewart, in Second-Street, between Market and Chesnut-Streets, M,DCC,XC. [1790]. ESTC No. W12644. Grub Street ID 321929.