Publications of David Hall

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 David Hall

  • Hall, David. Imported in the last vessels from England, and to be sold by David Hall, at the New Printing-Office, in Market-Street, Philadelphia, the following books, &c. [ Philadelphia: Printed by David Hall and William Sellers, 1768]. ESTC No. W12947. Grub Street ID 322254.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by David Hall

  • Rowe, Elizabeth. The history of Joseph; a poem. In ten books. By a female hand. To which is added, The hermit; a poem: and an essay on creation. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by David Hall, and William Sellers, 1767. ESTC No. W12709. Grub Street ID 321996.