Publications of Solomon Cotton

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 Solomon Cotton

  • Washington, George. A collection of the speeches of the president of the United States to both Houses of Congress, at the opening of every session, with their answers. Also, the addresses to the president, with his answers, from the time of his election: with an appendix, containing the circular letter of General Washington to the governors of the several states, and his farewell orders, to the armies of America, and the answer. Dedicated to the citizens of the United States of America. Published according to act of Congress. Printed at Boston: by Manning and Loring, for Solomon Cotton, Jun. bookseller and stationer, sold by him at his bookstore, no. 51, Marlborough-Street, July, 1796. ESTC No. W30397. Grub Street ID 340727.