Publications of Thomas Lang

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 Thomas Lang

  • The Pennsylvania pocket almanac, for the year of our Lord 1791 ... [Twelve lines of verse]. Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Lang, and sold at his house, no. 21, Church-Alley, and by Robert Campbell, bookseller, Second-Street, [1790]. ESTC No. W2378. Grub Street ID 333712.

Sold by Thomas Lang

  • Martinet, J. F. The catechism of nature; or, Familiar dialogues between a pupil and his tutor upon the works of Creation. Composed for the use of children. By Doctor Martinet, professor of philosophy at Zutphen. Translated from the Dutch. [One line from Young]. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Thomas Lang, no. 21, Church-Alley, MDCCXCII. [1792]. ESTC No. W37340. Grub Street ID 348109.