Publications of William Jones

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 William Jones

  • Cotton, John. Gods promise to his plantations As it was delivered in a sermon, by Iohn Cotton, B.D. and preacher of Gods word in Boston. London: Printed by William Jones for John Bellamy, and are to be sold at the three Golden Lyons by the Royall Exchange, 1634. ESTC No. S116722. Grub Street ID 136410.

Author

  • Jones, William. Lettre à Monsieur A*** du P***. Dans laquelle est compris l'examen de sa traduction des livres attribues a Zoroastre. Londres: chez P. Elmsly, dans le Strand, M,DCC,LXXI. [1771]. ESTC No. T38582. Grub Street ID 268038.
  • Jones, William. Kit?b-i Shakarist?n dar na?v?-i zab?ni P?rs?, ta?n?f-i Y?nus ?ksfurd? = A grammar of the Persian language. By William Jones, ... London: printed by W. and J. Richardson, 1771. ESTC No. T154271. Grub Street ID 198407.
  • Jones, William. Dissertation sur la litérature orientale. Londres: chez P. Elmsly; & Richardson & Urquhart, 1771. ESTC No. T98793. Grub Street ID 318002.
  • Jones, William. Kitāb-i ésakaristān dar Nahvı̄-yi Zabān-i Pārsı̄ Tasnı̄f-i Yūnus-i ūkstūrdı̄ = Grammaire persanne. Traduite de l’anglois de Mr. Jones, Associe du College Nomme de L’Universite, a Oxford: membre des societes royales de londres et de Copenhague. Revue et corrigee par L’Auteur. Londres: chez T. Cadell [de l'imprimerie de J. Richardson], 1772. ESTC No. T193827. Grub Street ID 227881.
  • Jones, William. Poems consisting chiefly of translations from the Asiatick languages. To which are added two essays, I. On the Poetry of the Eastern nations. II. On the Arts, commonly called Imitative. Oxford: at the Clarendon-Press. MDCCLXXII. Sold by Peter Elmsly, in the Strand, London; and Dan. Prince, at Oxford, [1772]. ESTC No. T54284. Grub Street ID 281140.
  • Jones, William. The history of the life of Nader Shah, King of Persia. Extracted from an Eastern manuscript, which was translated into French by Order of His Majesty The King Of Denmark. With an introduction, containing, I. A Description of Asia, according to the Oriental Geographers. II. A Short History of Persia from the earliest Times to the present Century: and an appendix, consisting of An Essay on Asiatick Poetry, and the History of the Persian Language. To which are added, Pieces relative to the French Translation. By William Jones, Esq. Fellow of University College, Oxford, and of the Royal Societies at London and Copenhagen. London: printed by J. Richardson, for T. Cadell In The Strand, MDCCLXXIII. [1773]. ESTC No. T117974. Grub Street ID 169540.
  • Jones, William. An oration intended to have been spoken in the Theatre at Oxford, on the 9th of July 1773, by a member of the University. London: printed in the year, 1773. ESTC No. T11483. Grub Street ID 166615.
  • Jones, William. Poems consisting chiefly of translations from the Asiatick languages. Altenburgh: by Gottlob Emanuel Richter, 1774. ESTC No. N40477. Grub Street ID 27461.
  • Jones, William. Poeseos Asiatic? commentariorum libri sex, cum appendice; subjicitur Limon, seu miscellaneorum liber: auctore Gulielmo Jones, A. M. Collegii Universitatis in Academi? Oxoniensi, & Societatum Regiarum Londinensis atque Hafniensis, Socio. Londini: e typographeo Richardsoniano, veneunt apud T. Cadell, in vico qui dicitur The Strand, MDCCLXXIV. [1774]. ESTC No. T117975. Grub Street ID 169541.
  • Jones, William. Kitāb-i ésakaristān dar Nahvı̄-yi Zabān-i Pārsı̄ Tasnı̄f-i Yūnus-i ūkstūrdı̄ = A grammar of the Persian language. By William Jones, Esquire, Fellow of University College, Oxford, and of the Royal Societies of London and Copenhagen. The second edition, with an index. London: printed by J. Richardson, 1775. ESTC No. N6840. Grub Street ID 49802.
  • Jones, William. Poems consisting chiefly of translations from the Asiatick languages. To which are added two essays; I. On the Poetry of the Eastern Nations. II. On the Arts, commonly called Imitative. London: printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols; for N. Conant (successor to Mr. Whiston), in Fleet Street, MDCCLXXVII. [1777]. ESTC No. T54034. Grub Street ID 280910.
  • Jones, William. An inquiry into the legal mode of suppressing riots, with a constitutional plan of future defence. London: printed for C. Dilly, 1780. ESTC No. T37251. Grub Street ID 266964.
  • Jones, William. The muse recalled, An ode, occasioned by the nuptials of Lord Viscount Althorp and Miss Lavinia Bingham, Eldest Daughter of Charles Lord Lucan, March VI, M.DCC.LXXXI. By William Jones, Esq. [Twickenham]: Strawberry-Hill: printed by Thomas Kirgate, M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]. ESTC No. T41634. Grub Street ID 270484.
  • Jones, William. An essay on the law of bailments. By William Jones, Esq. of the Middle Temple. London: printed by J. Nichols; for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, MDCCLXXXI. [1781]. ESTC No. T69325. Grub Street ID 293342.
  • Jones, William. A speech of William Jones, Esq. to the assembled inhabitants of the counties of Middlesex and Surry, the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark. XXVIII May, M. DCC. LXXXII. London: printed for C. Dilly, in the Poultry, M.DCC.LXXXII. [1782]. ESTC No. T193840. Grub Street ID 227893.
  • Jones, William. An ode in imitation of Alcæus. [London]: Printed and distributed gratis by the Society for Constitutional Information, [1782?]. ESTC No. T41938. Grub Street ID 270738.
  • Jones, William. The muse recalled, an ode on the nuptials of Lord Viscount Althorp and Miss Lavinia Bingham, eldest daughter of Charles Lord Lucan, March VI, M.DCC.LXXXI, by William Jones, ... Paris: printed by Franc. Ambr. Didot L’Ainé, 1782. ESTC No. T41635. Grub Street ID 270485.
  • Jones, William. An inquiry into the legal mode of suppressing riots. With a constitutional plan of future defence. Published in July 1780. By William Jones, ... The second edition, corrected. To which is now added A speech on the nomination of candidates to represent the county of Middlesex, 9th Sept. 1780, &c. London: printed for C. Dilly, 1782. ESTC No. T69326. Grub Street ID 293343.
  • Jones, William. The principles of government, in a dialogue between a scholar and a peasant. Written by a member of the Society for Consitutional Information. [London: Printed and distributed gratis by the Society for Constitutional Information, 1782]. ESTC No. T44453. Grub Street ID 272883.
  • Jones, William. Kitāb-i ésakaristān dar Nahvı̄-yi Zabān-i Pārsı̄ Tasnı̄f-i Yūnus-i ūkstūrdı̄. A grammar of the Persian language. By William Jones, Esquire, Fellow of University College, Oxford, and of the Royal Societies of London and Copenhagen. The third edition, with an index. London: printed by W. Richardson, for J. Murray, 1783. ESTC No. T111360. Grub Street ID 163710.
  • Jones, William. The principles of government; in a dialogue between a scholar and a peasant. Written by Sir William Jones, a member of the Society for Constitutional Information. [London: Printed and distributed gratis by the Society for Constitutional Information, 1783]. ESTC No. N11782. Grub Street ID 1784.
  • Jones, William. The principles of government; in a dialogue between a scholar and a peasant. Written by a member of the Society for Constitutional Information. [London: Printed and distributed gratis by the Society for Constitutional Information, 1783]. ESTC No. N11783. Grub Street ID 1785.
  • Jones, William. A discourse on the institution of a society for enquiring into the history, ... the antiquities, arts, sciences, and literature of Asia, delivered at Calcutta, January 15th, 1784. A charge to the Grand Jury at Calcutta, ... and a hymn to Camdeo, ... By Sir William Jones. London: printed for T. Payne and Son, 1784. ESTC No. T31990. Grub Street ID 262738.
  • Jones, William. Sir William Jones's charge to the grand jury, at Calcutta, June 10, 1790. Calcutta: printed by Manuel Cantopher, 1790. ESTC No. T167315. Grub Street ID 205428.
  • Jones, William. An essay on the law of bailments. By William Jones, ... Dublin: printed by Graisberry and Campbell, for Henry Watts, 1790. ESTC No. T164613. Grub Street ID 202882.
  • Jones, William. An essay on the law of bailments. By William Jones, Esq. of the Middle Temple. [Four lines of quotation in Latin]. [Boston]: From the press of Samuel Etheridge, for John West, no. 75, Cornhill, Boston, 1796. ESTC No. W32007. Grub Street ID 342464.
  • Jones, William. Kitāb-i ésakaristān dar Nahvı̄-yi Zabān-i Pārsı̄ Tasnı̄f-i Yūnus-i ūkstūrdı̄ = A grammar of the Persian language, by the late Sir William Jones, Knt. Fellow of university college, Oxford, and of the Royal Societies of London and Copenhagen. The fourth edition, with an index. London: printed for J. Murray and S. Highley, No. 32, Fleet Street. and J. Sewell, 1797. ESTC No. T166420. Grub Street ID 204648.
  • Jones, William. The principles of government, in a dialogue, between a gentleman & a farmer. By the late Sir William Jones. Re-Published, with notes and historical elucidations, by T. S. Norgate. Norwich: printed by J. March, for Lee and Hurst, Booksellers, No. 32, Pater-Nost-Rrow, London, [1797]. ESTC No. T70285. Grub Street ID 294046.
  • Jones, William. An essay on the law of bailments. By Sir William Jones, Knt. Late One Of The Judges Of The Supreme Court Of Judicature At Bengal. London: printed by A. Strahan, Law-Printer To The King's Most Excellent Majesty; for Charles Dilly, In The Poultry, 1798. ESTC No. T117972. Grub Street ID 169538.
  • Jones, William. The works of Sir William Jones. In six volumes. ... London: printed for G. G. and J. Robinson; and R. H. Evans (successor to Mr. Edwards), 1799. ESTC No. T175774. Grub Street ID 212839.
  • Jones, William. The works of Sir William Jones. In six volumes. Vol. I. London: printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, Pater-Noster-Row; and R. H. Evans (successor to Mr. Edwards), No. 26, Pall-Mall, MDCCXCIX. [1799]. ESTC No. T88221. Grub Street ID 308200.
  • Jones, William. Poems in three parts. Part the first. The Latin poetry of the late Sir William Jones, with an English version. Part the second. Literary characteristicks of the most distinguished members of the Asiastic Society, 1799. Part the third. Miscellaneous poems written in the Eas Indies. Calcutta: printed by Thomas Hollingbery. Hircarrah Press, [1800]. ESTC No. T125810. Grub Street ID 175874.