Publications of Joseph &

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 for Joseph &

  • Buchan, William. Domestic medicine: or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines: with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practioners. By William Buchan, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. Adapted to the climate and diseases of America, by Isaac Cathrall. Philadelphia: Printed by Richard Folwell, for Joseph & James Crukshank, no. 87, Market-street, 1797. ESTC No. W30920. Grub Street ID 341294.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by Joseph &

  • Hanway, Jonas. Travels of Jonas Hanway, Esq. through Russia into Persia, and afterwads [sic] through Russia, Germany, & Holland. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Joseph & James Crukshank, no. 87, High-Street, [between 1797 and 1806]. ESTC No. W10830. Grub Street ID 319979.