Publications of Barber and

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 Barber and

  • Macgowan, John. The life of Joseph, the son of Israel. In eight books. Chiefly designed for the use of youth. [Four lines of verse]. Albany: Printed by Barber and Southwick, for Thomas Spencer, and sold at his book-store, in Market-Street, a few doors north of the Dutch Church, M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]. ESTC No. W13623. Grub Street ID 322971.

Sold by Barber and

  • Poor Richard revived: being the farmer's diary; or, Barber & Southwick's Albany almanac; for the year of our Lord, 1796 ... By Old Father Richard, mathemat. Albany: Printed and sold by Barber and Southwick, two doors below the Dutch Church, State-Street. Generous allowance to retailers, [1795]. ESTC No. W15233. Grub Street ID 324701.