Publications of said Thomas.

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 said Thomas.

  • Pike, Nicolas. A new and complete system of arithmetic. Composed for the use of the citizens of the United States. By Nicolas Pike, A.M. [Three lines in Latin from Cicero]. Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts: at the press of Isaiah Thomas, by Leonard Worcester, for said Thomas. Sold by Thomas, Son & Thomas, in Worcester; by Thomas and Andrews, D. West, E. Larkin, S. Hall, J. White, and J. West, in Boston, and by all the booksellers in the United States, 1797. ESTC No. W23175. Grub Street ID 333064.