Publications of John Boyles

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 John Boyles

  • Blair, Robert. The grave. A poem. By Robert Blair. [One line from Job] To which is added, An elegy written in a country church-yard, by Mr. Gray. Boston: Re-printed by John Boyles [i.e., Boyle], for James Foster Condy, opposite the cornfield in Union-Street, MDCCLXXII. [1772]. ESTC No. W19868. Grub Street ID 329490.

Sold by John Boyles

  • Chaplin, Ebenezer. Civil state compared to rivers, all under God's controul, and what people have to do when administration is grievous. In a discourse delivered in Sutton, 2d Parish, January 17, 1773. Being the day preceeding the town meeting, which then stood adjourned to consider and act upon the letter, &. from Boston. Published at the desire of many of the hearers. By Ebenezer Chaplin, A.M. Pastor of said church and people. [Four lines of Scripture texts]. Boston: Printed and sold by John Boyles in Marlborough-Street, MDCCXCCIII. [1773]. ESTC No. W30384. Grub Street ID 340713.