Publications of Herman Mann

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 Herman Mann

  • Haven, Samuel. An oration, spoken at Dedham, on the Fourth of July, 1799, at the request of a number of the inhabitants of that town, and its vicinity, who assembled to commemorate American independence. By Samuel Haven. [Dedham, Mass.]: Printed at the Minerva Press in Dedham, by Herman Mann, 1799. ESTC No. W21563. Grub Street ID 331339.

Sold by Herman Mann

  • Defoe, Daniel. Life and surprising adventures of the renowned Robinson Crusoe, who lived twenty-eight years on an island inhabited by no human creature but himself, and which he afterwards lived to colonize. Dedham [Mass.]: Printed and sold by Herman Mann, 1800. ESTC No. W6052. Grub Street ID 355059.