Publications of Mary Midnight

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 for Mary Midnight

  • The Midwife; or The Old woman's magazine. Containing all the wit, and all the humour, and all the learning, and all the judgement, that has ever been, or ever will be inserted in all the other magazines, or the magazines of magazines, or the grand magazine of magazines, or any other book whatsoever: so that those who buy this book will need no other. Published pursuant to several Acts of Parliament, and by the permission of their most Christian and most Catholic Majesties, the Great Mogul and the States General. Embellish'd with cuts according to custom. London [England]: printed for Mary Midnight and sold by T[homas]. Carnan in St. Pauls Church Yard, [1750-1753]. ESTC No. P2385. Grub Street ID 56070.

Author

  • Midnight, Mary. Mother Midnight's miscellany. Containing, more than all the wit, and all the humour, and all the learning, and all the judgement, that has ever been, or ever will be. Likewise the Discovery of an unknown World; with some Account of the Religion, Customs, Manners, and Ceremonies of the Glums and Gawrys, Men and Women that Fly: With the Marriage-Ceremony of a Lying Man to a Flying Woman, and many other extraordinary Events, which ought never to be forgotten. First discover'd by Selim, in a Vision, on the Hills of Bagdat, on the sixth Day of the fourth Moon, Anno Mundi, 5791. Dedicated to the King of the Fidlers, and to his Queen, and to the Great Mogul's Jester, and to the greatest Conjurer in all Lapland, and to Bajazet the famous Race-Horse, and to the Gnost of Black and All Black, &c. &c. &c. By Mary Midnight, Midwise to all the Inhabitants of this Cosmos, and to the Choice Spirits in the Elysian Shades. Publish'd (which she always observes) in Conformity to several Acts of Parliament, and by. London: printed and sold by W. Reeve, in Fleet-Street; A. Dodd, opposite St. Clement's Church, in the Strand; H. Slater, the Corner of Clare-Court, Drury-Lane; D. Job, in King's-Street, Covent-Garden; and E. Cook and M. Kingman, at the Royal-Exchange, 1751. ESTC No. T99347. Grub Street ID 318486.