Publications of Alexander Thomson

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 Alexander Thomson

  • Whichcote, Benjamin. The works of the learned Benjamin Whichcote, D. D. Rector of St. Lawrence Jewry, London. Volume I. Aberdeen: printed by J. Chalmers, for Alexander Thomson Bookseller, and sold at his Shop in the Broadgate, MDCCLI. [1751]. ESTC No. T145997. Grub Street ID 192681.

Author

  • Thomson, Alexander. The choice. Edinburgh: printed for William Creech; and sold by J. Murray, London, M,DCCLXXXVIII. [1788]. ESTC No. T1020. Grub Street ID 155847.
  • Thomson, Alexander. Whist: a poem, in twelve cantos. London: printed for J. and B. Bell, NO. 148, Oxford-Street; E. Harlow, ST. James's-Street; and C. Forster, In The Poultry, MDCCXCI. [1791]. ESTC No. N25625. Grub Street ID 14973.
  • Thomson, Alexander. Whist: a poem, in twelve cantos. By Alexander Thomson, Esq. Second edition.. London: printed for T. Cadell, In The Strand; and sold by J. and B. Bell, NO. 148, Oxford Street; E. Harlow, ST. James's Street; and C. Forster, In The Poultry, MDCCXCII. [1792]. ESTC No. N25626. Grub Street ID 14974.
  • Thomson, Alexander. Essay on novels; a poetical epistle. Addressed to an ancient and to a modern Bishop. With six sonnets, from Werter. By Alexander Thomson, Esq. Author of Whist, a poem. Edinburgh: printed for P. Hill and J. Watson and Co, 1793. ESTC No. T4598. Grub Street ID 274183.
  • Thomson, Alexander. Essay on novels; a poetical epistle. Addressed to an ancient and to a modern bishop. With six sonnets, from Werter. By Alexander Thomson, Esq. author of Whist, a poem. Edinburgh: printed for P. Hill and J. Watson and Co., 1793. ESTC No. N47154. Grub Street ID 31893.
  • Thomson, Alexander. The paradise of taste. By Alexander Thomson, Esq. Author of Whist, a Poem. London: printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, (successors to Mr. Cadell) in the Strand, M.DCC.XCVI. [1796]. ESTC No. T13491. Grub Street ID 183482.
  • Thomson, Alexander. Pictures of poetry; historical, biographical, and critical. By Alex. Thomson, Esq. author of whist, and the paradise of taste. Edinburgh: printed for Mundell & Son; and for Longman & Rees, and J. Wright, London, 1799. ESTC No. T146599. Grub Street ID 193225.