Publications of Jacob Johnson

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 Jacob Johnson

  • Fenning, Daniel. The ready reckoner or Trader's sure guide, adapted to the use of all who deal by wholesale or retail, exhibiting, at one view, the amount or value of any number or quantity of goods or merchandize, from one up to ten thousand, at the various prices from one farthing to one pound. To which are prefixed, I. A table of interest, at six per cent. II. A table of the weight and value of coins, as they pass in the respective states of the union, with their sterling and federal value. III. A table shewing the value of continental money, as fixed by an act of the general assemblies of Pennsylvania and Maryland. IV. Tables, of the amount of expences, &c. by the day, week, month, and year. V. A table shewing the amount of cents, &c. Philadelphia: Printed by Jacob Johnson, no. 147, Market-Street, M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]. ESTC No. W19350. Grub Street ID 329004.