Publications of Daniel Humphreys

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 for Daniel Humphreys

  • Parker, Peter. The following description of the attack of Fort Sulivan, was received in a letter from Sir Peter Parker to Mr. Stephens, secretary of the admiralty. Philadelphia: Printed for Daniel Humphreys, by Styner and Cist, in Second-Street, six doors above Arch-Street. (Price one dollar.), [1776]. ESTC No. W19308. Grub Street ID 328959.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by Daniel Humphreys

  • Pindar, Peter. The lousiad: an heroi-comic poem. By Peter Pindar, Esquire. [Fourteen lines of verse]. [Philadelphia]: London printed: Philadelphia: re-printed and sold by Daniel Humphreys, near the drawbridge, M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]. ESTC No. W13655. Grub Street ID 323006.