Publications of ld by
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:
- "printed by x"; or
- "sold by x"; or
- "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,":
- "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 ld by
- W., H.. A poem, descriptive of the terrible fire, which made such shocking devastation in Boston, on Friday evening the twenty-first of April, 1787, in which were consumed one house of worship, of which the Reverend Ebenezer Wight was pastor, and upwards of one hundred dwelling-houses and other buildings ... Composed by H.W. [Boston]: Sold [by Ezekiel Russell] at the printing-office in Essex-Street, next Liberty-Pole: where may be had, on Saturday next, a particular account of the above melancholy catastrophe ., [1787]. ESTC No. W31527. Grub Street ID 341950.