Publications of John Dickins

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."

Sold by John Dickins

  • Articles of association, of the Trustees of the Fund for the Relief and Support of the Itinerant, Superannuated, and Worn-out Ministers and Preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the United States of America, their wives and children, widows and orphans. Philadelphia: --Printed by Henry Tuckniss--and may be had, gratis, of John Dickins, no. 50, North Second-Street, 1797. ESTC No. W24408. Grub Street ID 334369.

Printed for John Dickins

  • Burnet, Gilbert. Some account of the life and death of John, Earl of Rochester, who died July 26, 1680. Written by his own direction on his death bed. By Gilbert Burnett, Lord Bishop of Sarum. Philadelphia: Printed [by Jacob Johnson and Co.] for John Dickins, no. 50, No. Second-Street, MDCCXCV. [1795]. ESTC No. W22298. Grub Street ID 332118.
  • The Bible in miniature or A concise history of the Old & New Testaments[.]. Philadelphia: Printed for John Dickins no. 50, Noth. Second Street, [1796]. ESTC No. W38303. Grub Street ID 349124.