Publications of Gaine &

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 Gaine &

  • Gibson, Robert. A treatise of practical surveying; which is demonstrated from its first principles. Wherein every thing that is useful and curious in that art, is fully considered and explained. Particularly three new and very concise methods for determining the arreas [sic] of right-lined figures arithmetically, or by calculation, as well as the geometrical ones heretofore treated of. The whole illustrated with copper-plates. By Robert Gibson, teacher of the mathematics. With alterations and amendments, adapted to the use of American surveyors. New-York: Printed by William A. Davis & Co. for Gaine & Ten Eyck, T. Allen, S. Campbell, E. Duykinck [i.e., Duyckinck] & Co. N. Judah, T. & J. Swords, B. Gomez, New York; M. Carey, Philadelphia, and C.R. & G. Webster, Albany, 1798. ESTC No. W14448. Grub Street ID 323859.