Publications of Bioren &

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 Bioren &

  • Mitchell, William. A new and complete system of book-keeping, by an improved method of double entry; adapted to retail, domestic and foreign trade: exhibiting a variety of transactions which usually occur in business. The whole comprised in three sets of books; the last set, being a copy o the second according to those systems most generally in use, is given in order to exhibit, by a comparative view, the advantages of the system now laid down. To which is added, a table of the duties payable on goods, wares and merchandise, imported into the United States of America. The whole in dollars and cents. By William Mitchell. Philadelphia: printed by Bioren & Madan, 1796. ESTC No. W13833. Grub Street ID 323193.

Sold by Bioren &

  • Shakespeare, William. The plays and poems of William Shakespeare. Corrected from the latest and best London editions, with notes, by Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. To which are added, a glossary and the life of the author. Embellished with a striking likeness from the collection of His Grace the Duke of Chandos. Vol. I[-VIII]. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Bioren & Madan, MDCCXCV[-MDCCXCVI] [1795-1796]. ESTC No. W28892. Grub Street ID 339097.