Publications of J. Humphreys

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 J. Humphreys

  • Simes, Thomas. The military guide for young officers, by Thomas Simes, Esq. author of The military medley. In two volumes. Volume I[-Volume the second]. [Philadelphia]: London, printed. Philadelphia, re-printed by J. Humphreys, R. Bell, and R. Aitken, printers and booksellers, M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]. ESTC No. W26173. Grub Street ID 336202.

Sold by J. Humphreys

  • Young, Arthur. Rural oeconomy: or Essays on the practical parts of husbandry. Designed to explain several of the most important methods of conducting farms of various kinds; including many useful hints to gentlemen farmers, relative to the oeconomical management of their business ... To which is added, The rural Socrates, being memoirs of a country philosopher, by the author of The farmer's letters ... [Philadelphia]: London, printed: Philadelphia: Re-printed and sold by J. Humphreys, Junr, 1776. ESTC No. W39484. Grub Street ID 350172.