Publications of J. Springer

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 J. Springer

  • Priestley, Joseph. Miscellaneous observations relating to education. More especially as it respects the conduct of the mind. By Joseph Priestley, LL.D. F.R.S. [One line in Latin from Horace]. New-London [Conn.]: Printed by J. Springer, for T.C. Green, and S. Green; and J. Trumbull, Norwich, 1796. ESTC No. W19893. Grub Street ID 329518.

Sold by J. Springer

  • Hamilton, Adam. The confession and lamentation of a leper, while shut out of the camp of God's spiritual Israel. With other poetical labours, respecting his first awakenings, conversation, call to and success in the ministry of the Gospel. [Acrostic on Adam Hamilton]. New-London [Conn.]: Printed and sold by J. Springer, 1795. ESTC No. W2371. Grub Street ID 333640.