Publications of Charles Peirce

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 Charles Peirce

  • Whitefield, George. Ten sermons preached on various important subjects. By George Whitefield, A.B. Carefully corrected and revised, according to the best London edition. Portsmouth, New-Hampshire: Printed for Charles Peirce & S. Larkin, sold by them at their respective bookstores in Portsmouth, and by the principal booksellers in the United States, --1797--. ESTC No. W28029. Grub Street ID 338167.

Author

  • Peirce, Charles. Proposals for editing, printing and publishing the Oracle of the day as a Federal paper, devoted to government, order and laws. Charles Peirce, begs to assure the citizens of the United States, that he is unalterably determined to support the government of his country ... He has resolved that not a letter in his fount shall be a soldier in the armies of aliens. His types from henceforth are standard bearers in the legions of United Columbia, and marshalled rank and file, on the side of government, order and laws. ... [Portsmouth, N.H.: Printed by Charles Peirce, 1798]. ESTC No. W41182. Grub Street ID 351111.