Publications of Benjamin Davies

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 Benjamin Davies

  • Cobbett, William. The bloody buoy, thrown out as a warning to the political pilots of America: or, A faithful relation of a multitude of acts of horrid barbarity, such as the eye never witnessed, the tongue never expressed, or the imagination conceived, until the commencement of the Frenc Revolution. By Peter Porcupine. [Four lines from the Abbe Maury's speech to the National Assembly]. Philadelphia:: Printed for, and sold by, Benjamin Davies, no. 68, High-Street, and William Cobbett, no. 25, North Second-Street, M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]. ESTC No. W31123. Grub Street ID 341516.
  • The Philadelphia magazine and review: or, Monthly repository of information and amusement. Philadelphia [Pa.]: printed for Benjamin Davies, no. 68, High-street, [1799]. ESTC No. P5892. Grub Street ID 57682.