Publications of Draper &

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 Draper &

  • Edwards, Jonathan. A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of divinity, in a method entirely new. By the late Reverend Mr. Jonathan Edwards, president of the College of New Jersey[.]. [Boston]: Edinburgh printed: Boston: re-printed by Draper & Folsom, near the market, M.DCCLXXXII. [1782]. ESTC No. W19064. Grub Street ID 328706.

Sold by Draper &

  • George, Daniel. An almanack, for the year of our Lord and Saviour Christ 1779. Being the third after bissextile or leap year, and the thrd [sic] of American independence. Containing (besides what belongs to an almanack) a variety of other matter, useful and entertaining. By Daniel George, Philomath. [Six lines of verse]. Boston: Printed and sold by Draper & Folsom, and J. Mycall, of Newbury-Port-- Sold also by the shopkeepers in town and country, [1778]. ESTC No. W36448. Grub Street ID 347163.