Publications of Thomas, Son

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, Son

  • Houghton, Asa. The gentlemen's and ladies' diary: or, An almanack, for the year of the Creation, according to sacred writ, 5759. And of the Christian era, 1797. ... Fitted to the latitude and longitude of the town of Boston, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, but will also serve any of the adjoining states, without any sensible variation. By Asa Houghton. [Nine lines of verse]. Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts: by Thomas, Son & Thomas, for the author. Price 7 1-2 cents single---6 dimes per dozen and 6 dollars per gross, [1796]. ESTC No. W11276. Grub Street ID 320462.