Publications of George Forman

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 George Forman

  • Laws and ordinances, ordained and established by the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New-York, in Common Council convened; for the good rule and government of the inhabitants and residents of the said city. Passed and published the first day of May, 1797, in the eighth year of the mayoralty of Richard Varick, Esquire. New-York: Printed by George Forman, opposite the Post-Office, 1797. ESTC No. W13384. Grub Street ID 322712.

Sold by George Forman

  • Paine, Thomas. The age of reason. Being an investigation of true and of fabulous theology. By Thomas Paine. New-York: Printed and sold by George Forman, no. 156, Front-Street, ---1795. ESTC No. W31702. Grub Street ID 342136.