Publications of Richard Folwell

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 Richard Folwell

  • Acts passed at the first session of the Fifth Congress of the United States of America, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday the fifteenth of May, in the year M,DCC,XCVII. And of the independence of the United States, the twenty-first. Philadelphia: Printed by Richard Folwell, no. 33, Carter's-Alley, [1797]. ESTC No. W11750. Grub Street ID 320972.

Printed for Richard Folwell

  • Callender, James Thomson. The political progress of Britain: or, An impartial history of abuses in the government of the British Empire, in Europe, Asia, and America. From the Revolution, in 1688, to the present time: the whole tending to prove the ruinous consequences of the popular system of taxation, war, and conquest. [One line of quotation] Part second. Philadelphia: Printed for Richard Folwell, no. 33, Mulberry-Street, and sold in New-York by James Rivington, 1795. (Price three shillings). ESTC No. W20954. Grub Street ID 330676.