Publications of Joseph James

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 Joseph James

  • Gregory, John. A father's legacy to his daughters. Under the following heads. Introduction, religion, conduct, behaviour, amusements, friendship, love, and marriage. By the late Dr. Gregory, of Edinburgh. Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph James, in Chesnut-Street, M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]. ESTC No. W11109. Grub Street ID 320280.

Sold by Joseph James

  • Crisp, Stephen. Scripture truths demonstrated, in thirty-two sermons, or declarations of Stephen Crisp, late of Colchester, in Essex, deceased. Carefully taken in characters or short-hand, as they were delivered by him at the public meeting-houses of the people called Quakers, in and abou London. Faithfully transcribed and published, together with his prayers after sermons. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Joseph James, in Chesnut-Street, between Front and Second-Streets, MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]. ESTC No. W29092. Grub Street ID 339319.

Printed for Joseph James

  • Dodsley, Robert. The oeconomy of human life, complete, in two parts: translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin. To which is prefixed, an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered; in a letter from an English gentleman residing in China, to the Earl of *******. Philadelphia: Printed for Joseph James, M.DCC.XC. [1790]. ESTC No. W21365. Grub Street ID 331122.