Publications of Thomas B.

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 Thomas B.

  • An Address to the numerous and respectable inhabitants of the great and extensive district of Maine. Friends, brethren and fellow-citizens, of this important district. The time draweth nigh, when ye must be ... a free, sovereign and independent state. ... [Portland, Me.: Printed by Thomas B. Wait, 1791]. ESTC No. W1093. Grub Street ID 320086.

Sold by Thomas B.

  • Fenning, Daniel. Universal spelling-book or, A new and easy guide to the English language. ... By Daniel Fenning. Late schoolmaster of Bures, Suffolk, and author of the Use of the globes, Practical arithmetic, Guide to algebra, Royal English dictionary, Young man's book of common knowledge and a New grammar of the English language. Falmouth (Casco-Bay) [Me.]: Printed and sold by Thomas B. Wait, at his office in Middle-Street, MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]. ESTC No. W19364. Grub Street ID 329019.

Printed for Thomas B.

  • The History of little King Pippin, with an account of the melancholy death of four naughty boys, who were devoured by wild beasts. And the wonderful delivery of Master Harry Harmless, by a little white horse. New-York: Printed by Wm. Durell, for Thomas B. Jansen & Co, 1800. ESTC No. W11083. Grub Street ID 320251.