Publications of Thomas Dickman

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 Dickman

  • Valetudinary.. Miscellaneous reflections. In verse. Mostly written at sundry times, when under long confinement by a complication of nervous disorders. By a valetudinary. Printed by request of friends of that class. Printed at Greenfield, Massachusetts.: By Thomas Dickman, MDCCXCII. [1792]. ESTC No. W11412. Grub Street ID 320606.

Sold by Thomas Dickman

  • Johnson, Samuel. The Prince of Abissinia. A tale. By Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. Volume the first[-second]. Greenfield, (Massachusetts:): Printed and sold by Thomas Dickman, M,DCC,XC,V. [1795]. ESTC No. W27329. Grub Street ID 337417.