Publications of J. F.

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 J. F.

  • Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The school for scandal, a comedy; as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. Guernsey: printed by J. F. Louel, M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]. ESTC No. N21599. Grub Street ID 10956.

Printed for J. F.

  • Mably. Observations on the government and laws of the United States of America, translated from the French of the Abbé de Mably, with a preface by the translator. Amsterdam: printed for J. F. Rosart and Comp., MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]. ESTC No. N10159. Grub Street ID 169.

Author

  • F., J.. A compendiovs chatechsime. Newly set forth for the benefit of such as intend the sacrament of Christs body and blood, &c. Imprimatur John Dovvname. London: printed by Tho: Paine, and are to be sold by Andrew Kembe at Margarets Hill in Southwarke, 1645. ESTC No. R208209. Grub Street ID 84483.
  • F., J.. John the Divine's divinity, or, The confession of the generall assembly, or church of the first-born in heaven for these, and higher truths than these (by head and shoulders) will be acknowledged, not by some, but the whole multitude of disciples, when all the saints shall see their onenesse : one father, family, doctrine / written by I.F. London: Printed for Giles Calvert .., 1649. ESTC No. R40568. Grub Street ID 122342.
  • F., J.. A brief historical relation of the empire of Russia, and of its original growth out of 24 great dukedomes, into one entire empire, since the yeer 1514. Humbly presented to the view and serious perusal of all true-hearted English-men, that love and honour the peace and happiness of this their native country. By J.F. London: printed by J.C. for William Larnar, at the Blackmoore head neer Fleet-bridge, 1654. ESTC No. R22889. Grub Street ID 101515.
  • F., J.. The revvards of vertue. A comedie. By J.F. Gent. London: printed by Ja. Cottrel, for Hen. Fletcher at the three Gilt Cups in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1661. ESTC No. R18251. Grub Street ID 72605.
  • F., J.. To our valiant English nation, an encomium on the vvorthy exploit of Capt. John Baddison, commander of the Swallow, of 180 tuns, and 26 men; who preserv'd himself, and two other small ships, from a Turks man of war, of 36 guns, and 220 men; whom he, after a long and terrible fight, very honourably repulsed, and brought home 4 of the Turks prisoners. [London]: Sold by John Favel in Exchange-Alley in Cornhil, over against the Royal Exchange, 1671. ESTC No. R176979. Grub Street ID 69275.
  • F., J.. England's over-joy at the Duke of Monmouth's return: by the author of Englands lamentation for his departure: reflecting on his heroick actions. London: printed by T. Dawks, his Majestier British printer, at the Blew Anchor in Ludgate-street, 1679. ESTC No. R221048. Grub Street ID 95263.
  • F., J.. A new prognostication for the year of our Lord, 1685. being the first after leap-year. Wherein is contained the exact day, hour and minut of the new moon, her full and quarters; with a description of the eclipses this year; the daily disposition of the weather, and moveable feasts: a table of thr [sic] tides at Leith; and a table of the moons age, with the whole remarkable fairs in Scotland. Exactly calculated according to art, for the meridian of the most famous city of Edinburgh. Whose latitude longitude is 56 [d.] 00 according to the newest tables. By J. F. philol. & philom. Edinburgh: [heir of A. Anderson], printed for the year 1685. ESTC No. R170186. Grub Street ID 64931.
  • F., J.. Cryptomenysis patefacta: or the art of secret information disclosed without a key. Containing, plain and demonstrative rules, for decyphering all manner of secret writing. With exact methods, for resolving secret intimations by signs or gestures, or in speech. As also an inquiry into the secret ways of conveying written messages: and the several mysterious proposals for secret information, mentioned by Trithemius, &c. By J. F. London: printed for Daniel Brown, at the black Swan and Bible, without Temple-Bar, 1685. ESTC No. R6319. Grub Street ID 126673.
  • F., J.. A further account of the state of Ireland and the proceedings of the late king James in that kingdom. With an account of the Irish Parliament and the preparations of the English army to pass over for the relief of the Protestants, &c. Communicated in a letter to a worthy member of the honourable House of Commons. London: printed for J.C. near Fleet-bridge, 1689. ESTC No. R215735. Grub Street ID 90708.
  • F., J.. A declaration for Ireland, or no declaration, the way to reduce that kingdom to the obedience of the crown of England. With reasons wherefore the despoiled Protestants should receive some reparation out of the forfeited lands of the Irish Papists now in rebellion. Licensed Spetember 2. 1689. J.F. [[London]: Published by Rich. Janeway in Queens-Head-Ally in Pater-Noster-Row, 1689]. ESTC No. R215265. Grub Street ID 90334.
  • F., J.. An elegy on the death of His Grace the Duke of Grafton. London: printed by Richard Cheese, Jun., in the year 1690. ESTC No. R226821. Grub Street ID 99758.
  • F., J.. Rules for explaining and decyphering all manner of secret writing, plain and demonstrative. With exact methods for understanding intimations by signs, gestures, or speech. Also, an account of the secret ways of conveying written messages. Discovered by Trithemius, Schottus Lord Fran. Bacon, Bishop Wilkins, &c. With exact tables and examples. By J.F. London: Printed, for Dan. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-Bar, and Sam. Manship at the Black Bull, in Cornhill, MDCXCII. [1692]. ESTC No. R13502. Grub Street ID 61601.
  • F., J.. Nehushtan: or, John Elliot's Saving grace in all men, proved to be no grace; and his increated being in all, a great nothing. By J.F. London: printed for Thomas Cockeril, at the Three Legs, in the Poultrey, over against the Stocks-Market, 1694. ESTC No. R29851. Grub Street ID 112769.
  • F., J.. A new letter, to all drunkards, whoremongers, thieves, disobedience to parents, swearers, lyers, &c. Containing a serious and earnest exhortation, that they would forsake their evil ways. Shewing also, how many inconveniences the practice of these vices brings upon them, as impairation of good name, destruction of health, ruin in estate, making themselves worse than beasts; rendring then saved clowns and fools, and odious to God and all good men, bringing themselves to untimely ends, and many more inconveniences; but, what is worst of all, ruin both of soul and body in the world to come unless repented of. To which is added, some rules how to lay the foundation of repentance aright, and how, by the Grace of God, to perfect the same. With exhortations to put all in practice. By J.F. Licens'd April 15. 1695. D. Poplar. And entred according to order. London: printed by J. Bradford, 1696. ESTC No. R202507. Grub Street ID 79740.
  • F., J.. The merchant's ware-house laid open: or, the plain dealing linnen-draper. Shewing how to buy all sorts of linnen and Indian goods: wherein is perfect and plain instructions, for all sorts of persons, that they may not be deceived in any sort of linnen they want. Useful for linnen drapers, and their country chapmen, for semstresses, and in general for all persons whatsoever. Whereunto is added, the art of cutting out shifts, so that you may save a quarter of an ell, in cutting out one shift, and yet cut it as long and large, as others shall out of a quarter more. A work never before attempted. Dedicated to her royal highness the Princess Ann of Denmark. By J. F. London: printed for John Sprint at the Bell, and Geo. Conyers at the Golden Ring in Little Britain, 1696. ESTC No. R230263. Grub Street ID 102616.
  • F., J.. Disputatio juridica, de in integrum restitutionibus. Quam A. P. N. ex auctoritate cl: & consultissimi D. D. Roberti Bennet, inclytae Facultatis Juridicae decani. Nec non ex ejusdem Facultatis Conseusu & Decreto. Disquisitioni publicae subjicit. Ad advocati munus adspirans. Jo Falconar. Ad diem Junii, H. L. Q. S. Edinburgi: excudebat Jacobus Watson, 1699. ESTC No. R176931. Grub Street ID 69246.
  • F., J.. God's goodness to his Israel in all ages. Being the substance of some sermons, on Psalm Lxxiii. I. By J.F. minister of the Gospel. London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, at the Bible and Three Crowns, in Cheapside, near Mercers-Chappel, 1700. ESTC No. R32028. Grub Street ID 114773.
  • F., J.. Disputatio juridica, de donationibus. Quam favente numine ex auctoritate, clarissimi ac consultissimi viri, D. D. Roberti Bennet, inclytae Facultatis Juridicae decani: nec non ex ejusdem Facultatis Juridicae consensu & decreto, pro advocati munere consequendo, publicae disquisitioni subjicit. Joannes Falconer. Auth. & resp. ad diem [blank] Januarii. H. L. Q. S. Edinburgi: ex officina typographica haeredum Andreae Anderson, anno Dom. 1700. ESTC No. R176932. Grub Street ID 69247.
  • F., J.. A compendious introduction to the Latin tongue, by way of question and answer. Publish'd For the Benefit of all those who intend to attain to the Knowledge of that Language. The second edition with additions. By J.F. London: printed, and sold by J. Goudge in Westminster-Hall, W. March at Lincoln's-Inn-Gate; M. Baker, Widow, at Thavies-Inn-Gate in Holbourn, MDCCXXIII. [1723]. ESTC No. T112709. Grub Street ID 164676.
  • F., J.. Remarks on the Rev. Mr. Cooper's objections to the Rev. Mr. Ashley's sermon. [One line of Scripture text]. [Boston: s.n, 1743]. ESTC No. W21790. Grub Street ID 331581.
  • F., J.. Remarks on the Rev. Mr. Cooper's objections to the Rev. Mr. Ashley's sermon. [One line of Scripture text]. Boston: Printed and sold at no. 2. the head of the town-dock, Anno Dom. 1743. ESTC No. W21791. Grub Street ID 331582.
  • F., J.. Remarks on the Rev. Mr. Cooper's objections to the Rev. Mr. Ashley's sermon. [Boston: s.n, 1743]. ESTC No. W8944. Grub Street ID 358078.
  • F., J.. To the Reverend Mr. William Cooper ... [Boston: s.n, 1743]. ESTC No. W19531. Grub Street ID 329182.
  • F., J.. Remarks on the Reverend Mr. Joshua Gee's Letter to the Reverend Mr. Nathanael Eells, moderator of the late convention. [Boston: s.n, 1743]. ESTC No. W7018. Grub Street ID 356079.
  • F., J.. A letter to the Reverend Mr. Thomas Foxcroft. By J.F. [Thirteen lines of quotation]. Boston: Printed [by Samuel Kneeland], in the year 1745. ESTC No. W13524. Grub Street ID 322862.
  • F., J.. A letter to the Reverend Mr. William Hobby, Pastor of the First Church in Reading. By J.F. [Four lines from Pope's Dunciad]. [Boston]: Printed [by Samuel Kneeland], in the year. 1745. ESTC No. W19526. Grub Street ID 329176.
  • F., J.. Vita M. Tullii Ciceronis litteraria. Oxonii: e typographeo Clarendoniano, impensis Dan. Prince, Oxon. et Joan. Rivington, Londini, 1762. ESTC No. T120588. Grub Street ID 171605.
  • F., J.. A letter to a Member of the Honourable the House of Commons, of Ireland. Shewing the utility and necessity of making the canals from the sea, below Newry, to Drumglass colliery, in the county of Tyrone, navigable for sea vessels, according to a plan laid down by that Honourable House, in the session of 1759. By a friend to the manufactures of Ireland. Dublin: printed in the year, 1767. ESTC No. T195187. Grub Street ID 228934.
  • F., J.. Des causes et des remedes de l'amour, considéré comme maladie, par J. F., médecin anglais; pour servir de supplement au livre intitulé: De l'homme & de la femme, Considérés dans l'état du mariage. Londres [i.e Paris?]: et se trouve a Paris, chez Costard, fils, & compagnie, 1773. ESTC No. T1166. Grub Street ID 168264.
  • F., J.. Extracts from various authors; with a few original pieces on divine subjects, by J. F. Bath: printed by S. Hazard, 1785. ESTC No. T219292. Grub Street ID 243519.
  • F., J.. Miscellaneous pieces. Including the Winchester bushel; or, thoughts on a late conviction: a satire. In the course of which many of the first characters are noticed, from the Duke down to the informer. By J- F-, Botesdale, Suffolk. London: printed, and sold by the booksellers in town and country, 1798. ESTC No. T173274. Grub Street ID 210546.