Publications of ndon: printed

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 ndon: printed

  • Smith, William. A review of the military operations in North-America, from the commencement of the French hostilities on the frontiers of Virginia in 1753, to the surrender of Oswego, on the 14th of August, 1756. Interspersed with various observations, characters, and anecdotes; necessary to give light into the conduct of American transactions in general; and more especially into the political management of affairs in New York. In a letter to a nobleman. [New Haven?]: London: printed, for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall. MDCCLVII. New-England, re-printed [by James Parker and Company?], in the year. M,DCC,LVIII. [1758]. ESTC No. W29062. Grub Street ID 339286.

Printed for ndon: printed

  • Witherspoon, John. Ecclesiastical characteristics: or, The arcana of church policy. Being an humble attempt, to open the mystery of moderation. Wherein is shewn, a plain and easy way of attaining to the character of a moderate man, as at present in repute in the Church of Scotland. By John Witherspoon, D.D. [Philadelphia]: London: printed, Philadelphia: re-printed, by William and Thomas Bradford, at the London Coffee-House, M,DCCLXVII. [1767]. ESTC No. W9397. Grub Street ID 358561.