Publications of John Douglas

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

On this last point, trade publishers such as Mary Cooper appeared in imprints as having "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.

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 for John Douglas

  • A New journal of a voyage round the world, performed in His Majesty's ship Endeavour, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, and 1771, by Captain James Cook; undertaken in pursuit of natural knowledge, at the desire of the Royal Society: containing all the various occurrences of the voyage. With descriptions of several new discovered countries in the southern hemisphere; and accounts of their soil and productions; and of many singularities in the structure, apparel, customs, manners, policy, manufactures, &c. of their inhabitants. To which is added, a concise vocabulary o the language of the Otahitee. [Two lines from Swift]. [Philadelphia]: London printed; Philadelphia re-printed, by James Humphreys, Junr. for John Douglas M'Dougall, book-binder, at his shop in Second-Street, near the Court-House, M,DCC,LXXIV. [1774]. ESTC No. W24507. Grub Street ID 334450.

Author

  • Douglas, John. Pandæmonium: or, a new infernal expedition. Inscrib'd to a being who calls himself William Lauder. By Philalethes. London : printed for W. Owen, near Temple-Bar, M.DCC.L. [1750]. ESTC No. T43570. Grub Street ID 272142.
  • Douglas, John. Milton vindicated from the charge of plagiarism, brought against him by Mr. Lauder, and Lauder himself convicted of several forgeries and gross impositions on the public. In a Letter humbly addressed to the Right Honorable the Earl of Bath. By John Douglas, M. A. Rector of Eaton Constantine, Salop. London : printed for A. Millar, opposite Catharine-Street, in the Strand, MDCCLI. [1751] [1750]. ESTC No. T94395. Grub Street ID 313987.
  • Douglas, John. Milton vindicated from the charge of plagiarism, brought against him by Mr. Lauder, and Lauder himself convicted of several forgeries and gross impositions on the public. ... By John Douglas, . London : printed for A. Millar, 1751. ESTC No. N4021. Grub Street ID 27274.
  • Douglas, John. The criterion: or, miracles examined with a view to expose the pretensions of pagans and Papists; to compare The Miraculous powers recorded in the New Testament, with those said to subsist in later Times, and to shew The great and material Difference between them in Point of Evidence: From whence it will appear that the former must be True, and the latter may be false. London : printed for A. Millar in the Strand, MDCCLIV. [1754]. ESTC No. T64655. Grub Street ID 289642.
  • Douglas, John. An apology for the clergy; With a View to expose the groundless assertions Of a late Commentator on the 107th Psalm; And to undeceive The Admirers of certain Popular Declaimers, by shewing the dangerous Consequences of their Manner of Preaching. The second edition.. London : printed for S. Bladon, in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCLV. [1755]. ESTC No. T61677. Grub Street ID 287320.
  • Douglas, John. An apology for the clergy; With a View to expose the groundless assertions Of a late Commentator on the 107th Psalm; And to undeceive The Admirers of certain Popular Declaimers, by shewing the dangerous Consequences of their Manner of Preaching. London : printed for S. Bladon, in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCLV. [1755]. ESTC No. T22227. Grub Street ID 245213.
  • Douglas, John. Six letters from A--d B--r to Father Sheldon, Provincial of the Jesuits in England; illustrated with several remarkable facts, tending to ascertain the authenticity of the said letters, and the true character of the writer. London : printed for J. Morgan, in Pater-Noster Row, MDCCLVI. [1756]. ESTC No. T86860. Grub Street ID 306961.
  • Douglas, John. A serious defence of some late measures of the administration: particularly with regard to the introduction and establishment of foreign troops. London : printed for J. Morgan, 1756. ESTC No. N22202. Grub Street ID 11569.
  • Douglas, John. A serious defence of some late measures of the administration; particularly with regard to the introduction and establishment of foreign troops. London : [s.n.], Printed in the year MDCCLVI. [1756]. ESTC No. T177113. Grub Street ID 214075.
  • Douglas, John. Milton no plagiary; or, a detection of the forgeries contained in Lauder's Essay on the imitation of the moderns in the Paradise lost. In a Letter humbly addressed to the Right Honorable the Earl of Bath, By the Rev. John Douglas, A. M. The second edition, corrected and enlarged, by the addition of a postscript.. London : printed for A. Millar, opposite Catherine-Street, in the Strand, MDCCLVI. [1756]. ESTC No. T94045. Grub Street ID 313661.
  • Douglas, John. A serious defence of some late measures of the administration; particularly with regard to the introduction and establishment of foreign troops. London : printed for J. Morgan, in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCLVI. [1756]. ESTC No. T26236. Grub Street ID 258415.
  • Douglas, John. Bower and Tillemont compared: or, the first volume of the pretended original and protestant History of the popes, shewn to be chiefly a traslation [sic] from a popish one; with some farther particulars, relating to the true character and conduct of the translator. To which will be added a very circumstantial account of his escape from Macerata to England, as taken from his own mouth. By the author of, Six letters from A-d B-r to Father Sheldon, Provincial of the Jesuits, illustrated, &c. London : printed for J. Morgan in Pater-noster-Row, 1757. ESTC No. T86858. Grub Street ID 306959.
  • Douglas, John. A full confutation of all the facts advanced in Mr. Bower's three defences. In which the charge brought against him is confirmed, by a seventh letter to Father Sheldon; by an Authentic Certificate from Italy, and Many other demonstrative Proofs. By the author of The six letters illustrated, and of Bower and Tillemont compared. London : printed for J. Morgan, in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCLVII. [1757]. ESTC No. T66440. Grub Street ID 291187.
  • Douglas, John. The criterion: or, miracles examined, with a view to expose the pretensions of pagans and Papists, To compare The Miraculous Powers recorded in the New Testament, with those said to subsist in later Times, And to shew The Great and Material Difference between them in point of Evidence. From whence it will appear, That the Former must be True, and the Latter may be False. By the Rev. John Douglas, A.M. Vicar of High Ercal, Salop, and Chaplain to the Right Hon the Earl of Bath. London : printed for A. Millar, in the Strand, MDCCLVII. [1757]. ESTC No. T192222. Grub Street ID 226765.
  • Douglas, John. A complete and final detection of A-d B-r: containing a summary view of the evidence formerly produced against him; a confutation of the evasions and subterfuges in his several defences; and many new demonstrations of the fictions of the pretended convert, on the Authority of Original Papers, Certificates, and Attestations, now first published: To which is added a postscript, in answer to some very remarkable facts, &c. and an Appendix, containing the Original Papers. By the author of the Full confutation, &c. London : printed for J. Morgan, in Pater-Noster-Row, [1758]. ESTC No. T86859. Grub Street ID 306960.
  • Douglas, John. The conduct of a noble lord scrutinized. By a volunteer who was near his Person from the 28th of July, to the 2d of August, 1759. London : printed for J. Fuller, in Blowbladder-Street, Cheapside, MDCCLIX. [1759]. ESTC No. T59444. Grub Street ID 285462.
  • Douglas, John. A letter addressed to two great men, on the prospect of peace; and on the terms necessary to be insisted upon in the negociation. Dublin: printed for G. and A. Ewing, 1760. ESTC No. T155037. Grub Street ID 198932.
  • Douglas, John. A letter addressed to two great men, on the prospect of peace; and on the terms necessary to be insisted upon in the negociation. Dublin: printed for G. and A. Ewing, 1760. ESTC No. T155038. Grub Street ID 198933.
  • Douglas, John. A letter addressed to two great men, on the prospect of peace; and on the terms necessary to be insisted upon in the negociation. London : printed for A. Millar, in the Strand, MDCCLX. [1760]. ESTC No. T37753. Grub Street ID 267318.
  • Douglas, John. A letter addressed to two great men, on the prospect of peace; and on the terms necessary to be insisted upon in the negociation. The second edition, corrected.. London : printed for A. Millar, 1760. ESTC No. T37754. Grub Street ID 267319.
  • Douglas, John. A letter addressed to two great men, on the prospect of peace; and on the terms necessary to be insisted upon in the negociation. Dublin: printed for G. and A. Ewing, 1760. ESTC No. N11609. Grub Street ID 1612.
  • Douglas, John. A letter addressed to two great men, on the prospect of peace; and on the terms necessary to be insisted upon in the negotiation. London : printed for A. Millar. Sold by A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, MDCCLX. [1760]. ESTC No. N1632. Grub Street ID 5994.
  • Douglas, John. A letter addressed to two great men, on the prospect of peace; and on the terms necessary to be insisted upon in the negotiation. [Nine lines of quotations]. [Boston]: London, printed. MDCCLX. Boston: reprinted, by B. Mecom, and sold at the new printing-office, near the town-house, 1760. ESTC No. W13414. Grub Street ID 322746.
  • Douglas, John. A letter addressed to two great men, on the prospect of peace; and on the terms necessary to be insisted upon in the negociation. [Nine lines of quotations]. [Boston]: London: printed. 1760. Boston: re-printed, and sold by Fowle and Draper in Marlborough-Street, M.DCC.LX. [1760]. ESTC No. W13415. Grub Street ID 322747.
  • Douglas, John. A letter addressed to two great men, on the prospect of peace; and on the terms necessary to be insisted upon in the negotiation. London : printed for A. Millar. Sold by A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1760. ESTC No. T201671. Grub Street ID 232893.
  • Douglas, John. A letter addressed to two great men, on the prospect of peace; and on the terms necessary to be insisted upon in the negociation. The second edition, corrected.. London : printed for A. Millar, 1760. ESTC No. N61430. Grub Street ID 44233.
  • Douglas, John. A letter addressed to two great men, on the prospect of peace; and on the terms necessary to be insisted upon in the negociation. Dublin: printed for G. and A. Ewing, at the Angel and Bible in Dame-Street, M,DD,CCLX [1760]. ESTC No. T87101. Grub Street ID 307185.
  • Douglas, John. A letter addressed to two great men, on the prospect of peace; and on the terms necessary to be insisted upon in the negociation. Cork: re-printed by Phineas and George Bagnell, 1760. ESTC No. T171530. Grub Street ID 209150.
  • Douglas, John. Seasonable hints from an honest man on the present important crisis of a new reign and a new Parliament. London : Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand, MDCCLXI. [1761]. ESTC No. T47257. Grub Street ID 275225.
  • Douglas, John. Seasonable hints from an honest man on the present important crisis of a new reign and a new parliament. Dublin: printed for G. and A. Ewing, P. Wilson, and J. Exshaw, Booksellers, in Dame-Street, MDCCLXI. [1761]. ESTC No. T10148. Grub Street ID 155360.
  • Douglas, John. A sermon preached before the Lords spiritual and temporal, in the abbey church of Westminster, on Saturday, January 30, 1790. Being The Anniversary of King Charles's martyrdom. By John, Lord Bishop of Carlisle. London : printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand, M.DCC.XC. [1790]. ESTC No. T47781. Grub Street ID 275749.
  • Douglas, John. A sermon preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; At their anniversary meeting in the Parish Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, on Friday February 15, 1793. By the Right Reverend John lord bishop of Salisbury. London : Printed by S. Brooke, in Warwick-Lane, MDCCXCIII. [1793]. ESTC No. T47742. Grub Street ID 275706.