Publications of T. M.

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 multiple roles in combination (which suggests a likelihood that the person is a trade publisher):

  1. "printed and sold by x"; "printed for and sold by x"; or "printed by and for x" and so on.

Printers (owners of the type and printing presses, and possibly owners of the copyright) may be identified by the words printed by, but printed by does not universally designate a person who is a printer by trade. Booksellers may be identified by the words sold by, but sold by encompasses a number of roles. Booksellers or individuals who owned the copyright are generally identified by the words printed for, but nothing should be concluded in this regard without further evidence, especially since "printed for" could signify that the named person was a distributor rather than a copyright holder. Trade publishers, who distributed books and pamphlets but did not own the copyright or employ a printer—and were not printers themselves—might be identified by the words printed and sold by. Furthermore, works from this period often display false imprints, whether to evade copyright restrictions, to conceal the name of the copyright holders, or to dupe unwitting customers. Ultimately, one must proceed with caution in using the following lists: designations in the imprints may not reliably reflect the actual trades or roles of the people named, and the formulas used in imprints do not consistently mean the same thing.

David Foxon discussed the "meaning of the imprint" in his Lyell Lecture delivered at Oxford in March 1976, with particular attention to "publishers" in the eighteenth-century context:

The fullest form of an imprint is one which names three people, or groups of people:
     London: printed by X (the printer), for Y (the bookseller who owned the copyright), and sold by Z.
In the eighteenth century the printer's name is rarely given, at least in works printed in London, and the form is more commonly:
     London: printed for Y, and sold by Z.
Very often in this period, and particularly for pamphlets, it is further abbreviated to:
     London: printed and sold by Z.
It is this last form which is my present concern. Z is usually what the eighteenth century called 'a publisher', or one who distributes books and pamphlets without having any other responsibility—he does not own the copyright or employ a printer, or even know the author.

D. F. McKenzie coined the term "trade publisher" for these publishers in his Sandars Lectures, also in 1976, on the grounds that their principal role was to publish on behalf of other members of the book trade (Treadwell 100).

Michael Treadwell cautions that "In this period the imprint 'London: Printed and sold by A.B.' normally means 'Printed at London, and sold by A.B.' and must not be taken to mean that A.B. is a printer in the absence of other evidence." Further, "The imprint 'published by' occurs only rarely in Wing and is almost always associated with the name of a trade publisher" (104). While there are exceptions to the rule, it is "certain," he explains, "that anyone who made a speciality of distributing works for others will show a far higher proportion than normal of imprints in one of the 'sold by' forms" (116), which appear in the imprint as "sold by," "printed and sold by," or "published by" (104). Treadwell gives Walter Kettilby as an example of "a fairly typical copyright-owning bookseller" (106)—his role is almost always designated by the phrase "printed for" on imprints.

A final caution: publisher is a word that should be used with some deliberation. Samuel Johnson defines it simply as "One who puts out a book into the world," but "published by" rarely appears on the imprint until later in the eighteenth century, and then primarily associated with newspapers and pamphlets. Treadwell observes that John Dunton names only five publishers among the 200 binders and booksellers in his autobiographical Life and Errors (1705) wherein he undertakes "to draw the Character of the most Eminent [Stationers] in the Three Kingdoms" (100). Treadwell also remarks, however, that "in law, anyone who offered a work for sale 'published' it. In this sense every work had one or more 'publishers', and every bookseller, mercury, and hawker was a 'publisher'" (114).

See:

  • Terry Belanger, "From Bookseller to Publisher: Changes in the London Book Trade, 1750–1850," in Book Selling and Book Buying. Aspects of the Nineteenth-Century British and North American Book Trade, ed. Richard G. Landon (Chicago: American Library Association, 1978).
  • Bricker, Andrew Benjamin. "Who was 'A. Moore'? The Attribution of Eighteenth-Century Publications with False and Misleading Imprints," in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 110.2 (2016).
  • John Dunton, The Life and Errors of John Dunton (London: Printed for S. Malthus, 1705).
  • John Feather, "The Commerce of Letters: The Study of the Eighteenth-Century Book Trade," Eighteenth-Century Studies 17 (1984).
  • David Foxon, Pope and the Early Eighteenth-Century Book Trade, ed. James McLaverty (Oxford University Press, 1991).
  • Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language, (printed for J. and P. Knapton; T. and T. Longman; C. Hitch and L. Hawes; A. Millar; and R. and J. Dodsley, 1755).
  • D.F. McKenzie, The London Book Trade in the Later Seventeenth Century (Sandars lectures in bibliography, 1977).
  • Michael Treadwell, "London Trade Publishers 1675–1750," The Library sixth series, vol. 4, no. 2 (1982).

Printed by T. M.

  • Laicus.. Address to Johannes Clericus; occasioned by his letter to the Reverend John Walker, F.T.C.D. By Laicus. Dublin: printed by T. M. Bates, and sold by T. Stewart, and the rest of the booksellers, 1794. ESTC No. N29238. Grub Street ID 18417.

Sold by T. M.

  • The complete bird-fancier; containing, a compendious treatise on pigeons, pheasants, pea-fowl, guinea-fowl. Together with the very best instructions for catching, breeding, and rearing all sorts of song-birds. ... From various authors. Dublin: printed and sold by T. M. Bates, 1794. ESTC No. N31217. Grub Street ID 20122.

Printed for T. M.

  • Wettenhall, Edward. Sermons preached upon several occasions. By Edward Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross. London: printed for T. M. and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1687. ESTC No. R186408. Grub Street ID 75102.

Author

  • M., T.. A particular list of divers of the commanders and officers taken prisoners at Marston Moore neer York (otherwise called Hesham Moore.) Also a relation of some remarkable passages, in the fight: as it is sent up in a letter from Hull, dated the sixth of Iuly, 1644. Printe according to order. London: printed for Ralph Rounthwait, 1644. ESTC No. R17443. Grub Street ID 67617.
  • M., T.. Sir Thomas Fairfaxes taking of Dennis Castle, and Felford Haven; and twenty six peeces of ordnance taken in a Dunkerke ship that came to relieve Pendennis, all the men taken prisoners, and all their ammunition and provisions in the ship, and fifty men put in her for the service of the Parliament. With the Generalls summons sent into Pendennis Castle, and the Governors answer. And the proceedings in blocking up of Michaells Mount, where Marques Hamilton is prisoner. Eighty come in to the Parliament from thence; with the last passages of Sir Thomas Fairfaxes victorious proceedings in Cornewell. This being a true copie and examined, is printed and published according to order of Parliament. [London]: Printed for Matthew Walbanke at Grays-Inne Gate, March. 26. 1646. ESTC No. R200704. Grub Street ID 78196.
  • M., T.. The Princes standard set up in the vice-admirall on the downes neere Sandowne Castle. His Highnesse demand of twenty thousand pounds from the city of London: the declaration, and heads of two letters sent to the city, and read at a common councell, signed with the Prince own hand. Also His Highnesse message to Sir Michael Lieusay of Kent, sent by a trumpeter: the burning of the town of Deale, and the Duke of Yorke returned into Holland for more men: with a commission from the Prince, sent to the governour of Scarborough Castle. London: printed for R.A., 1648. ESTC No. R23177. Grub Street ID 103731.
  • M., T.. Mensa lubrica Mongom. illustrissimo domino dno. Edwardo Baroni de Cherbury [by] T.M. Oxoniæ: Excudebat Leon. Lichfield academiæ typographus, A.D. 1[651?]. ESTC No. R41783. Grub Street ID 123322.
  • M., T.. The life of a satyrical puppy, called Nim. Who worrieth all those satyrists he knowes, and barkes at the rest. By T.M. London: printed by for [sic] Humphrey Moseley, at the Prince's Armes in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1657. ESTC No. R38869. Grub Street ID 120914.
  • M., T.. A letter concerning the present state of physick, and the regulation of the practice of it in this kingdom. Written to a doctor here in London. London: printed for Jo. Martyn and Ja. Allestry, at the Bell in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1665. ESTC No. R32085. Grub Street ID 114826.
  • M., T.. A letter of queries to the popish brethren of the association. London: printed for A. Banks, MDCLXXXII. [1682]. ESTC No. R18196. Grub Street ID 72335.
  • M., T.. A full account of the apprehending of Sir Thomas Armstrong at Leyden, with the manner of his deportment, at the time of his apprehending, and during his voyage to his commitment to Newgate: as is was sent in a letter to a friend in London. [London]: Printed by N. T. at the entrance into the Old-Spring-Garden, 1684. ESTC No. R226716. Grub Street ID 99669.
  • M., T.. The grammarian's vade-mecum, or pocket companion: containing the general terms of grammar in the French and English languages: disposed in alphabetical order. Designed as An Assistance to the Memory of Young Beginners; and also As a ready Method of recovering a perfect Knowledge of Grammar, when it has been lost through Inattention, or want of Practice. By a private tutor. London: printed for W. Brown, the Corner of Essex-Street, in the Strand, MDCCLXXIV. [1774]. ESTC No. T106167. Grub Street ID 159341.
  • M., T.. A letter to His Grace the Duke of Buccleugh, on national defence. To which is now added, a postscript, relative to the regiments of fencible men raising in Scotland. Edinburgh: sold by J. Dickson, 1778. ESTC No. T179898. Grub Street ID 216604.
  • M., T.. A letter to His Grace the Duke of Buccleugh, on national defence: with some remarks on Dr. Smith's chapter on that subject, in his book entitled, "an enquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations.". London: printed for J. Murray, No 32. Fleet-Street, MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]. ESTC No. T107064. Grub Street ID 160137.