Publications of J. Greenleaf

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. Greenleaf

  • Church, Benjamin. An oration, delivered March fifth, 1773. At the request of the inhabitants of the town of Boston; to commemorate the bloody tragedy of the fifth of March, 1770. By Dr. Benjamin Church. [Seven lines from Virgil]. Boston: Printed by J. Greenleaf, and sold at his printing-office, in Hanover-Street near Concert-Hall, 1773. ESTC No. W9121. Grub Street ID 358268.

Printed for J. Greenleaf

  • Free, John. England's warning-piece; shewing the supreme and indispensable authority of the laws of God; and the impiety, and fatal consequences of screening, and abetting murder. A sermon occasioned by the untimely death of Mr. William Allen the younger, who was most inhumanly murdered near his father's house, by an arbitrary military power, on Tuesday, the tenth of May, 1768. Preached at the request of his friends, in the Parish Church of Newington-Butts, and published in compliance with the demand of the public. By John Free, D.D. Boston: Printed for J. Greenleaf, and sold at the new printing-office, in Hanover-Street, 1773. ESTC No. W31874. Grub Street ID 342317.