Publications of Thomas Bailey

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 Bailey

  • Haywood, Eliza. The city jilt: or, the alderman turn'd beau. A secret history. London: printed by T. Bailey, at the Ship and Crown, Leaden-Hall street, where Tradesmens Bills are Printed at the Letter press, and off Copper-Plates. - Where Maredant's Antiscorbutic Drops are Sold at Six Shillings the Bottle, which Cures the most inveterate Scurvy, Leprosy, &c., [1764?]. ESTC No. T57429. Grub Street ID 283702.

Sold by Thomas Bailey

  • Haywood, Eliza. The distress'd orphan: or, Love in a mad-house. London: sold at T. Bailey's printing-office, the Ship and Crown, Leaden-hall street, where tradesmens bills are printed neat and reasonable, [before 1765]. ESTC No. N7944. Grub Street ID 52853.

Printed for Thomas Bailey

  • The uncommon adventures oF Miss Kitty F****r. London: printed for Thomas Bailey, 1759. ESTC No. T102119. Grub Street ID 155962.
  • Belinda; or, Happiness the reward of constancy. Mannifested [sic] in a series of the most interesting and surprizing events ever yet made publick. London: printed for T. Bailey at his printing office, the Ship and Crown in Leadenhall-street; where tradesmens bills are printed off copper plates, and letter press, neat and reasonable, [1760?]. ESTC No. N25046. Grub Street ID 14396.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by Thomas Bailey

  • True Bleu.. The humours of Portsmouth, or, all is well, that ends well. A farce of three acts. By True Bleu. London: printed and sold by T. Bailey, at the Ship and Crown, in Leadenhall-Street; where Tradesmens Bills are Printed off Copper-Plates, and at the Letter-Press, [1760]. ESTC No. N33502. Grub Street ID 21974.