Publications of J. Johnston

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. Johnston

  • Zubly, John Joachim. Calm and respectful thoughts on the negative of the Crown on a speaker chosen and presented by the representatives of the people: occasioned by some publications in the Georgia gazette, of May and June 1772, wherein the late Assembly of that province is charged with encroaching on the rights of the Crown. By a freeman. [One line in Latin]. [Savannah: Printed by J. Johnston, 1772]. ESTC No. W30193. Grub Street ID 340510.

Printed for J. Johnston

  • Fordyce, George. A dissertation on simple fever; or, on fever, consisting of one paroxysm only. By George Fordyce, M.D. F.R.S. Senior Physician To ST. Thomas's Hospital, And Reader ON The Practice Of Physic In London. London: printed for J. Johnston, In ST. Paul's Church Yard, MDCCXCIV. [1794]. ESTC No. N1872. Grub Street ID 8189.