Publications of Thomas Payne

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).

Sold by Thomas Payne

  • Clutton, Joseph. A short and certain method of curing continu'd fevers. Chiefly by the assistance of a new febrifuge. To which are added some practical observations on the common febrifuges. And a history of thirteen cases, to illustrate the Manner of Application. By Jos. Clutton. London: printed by S. Palmer and J. Huggonson, and sold by T. Payne, at the Crown in Ivy-Lane, near Pater-Noster-Row, and the booksellers of London and Westminster, [1729]. ESTC No. T116965. Grub Street ID 168590.

Printed for Thomas Payne

  • Livia's advice to Augustus, persuading clemency in the case of Cinna, who, was taken in actual rebellion against the government. Collected from the Roman historians. London: printed for T. Payne near Stationers-Hall, MDCCXXII. [1722]. ESTC No. N11168. Grub Street ID 1161.
  • The Universal journal. London [England]: printed for T[homas]. Payne, near Stationers-Hall; where letters and advertisements are taken in, [1723-1724]. ESTC No. P1693. Grub Street ID 55476.
  • Ward, Edward. The batchelor's estimate of the expences of a married life. In a letter to a friend. Being an answer to a proposal of marrying a lady with 2000 l. fortune. London: printed for T. Payne at the Crown in Ivy-Lane, near Pater-Noster Row, M.DCC.XXIX. [1729]. ESTC No. T21393. Grub Street ID 240551.
  • Blackhall, Thomas. The invalidity of lay-baptism proved from scripture, and confirmed by the doctrine of Catholick antiquity, and of the Church of England. London: printed for T. Payne, at the Crown in Ivy-Lane, near Pater-Noster Row, M.DCC.XXX. [1730]. ESTC No. T103970. Grub Street ID 157574.
  • Long, Roger. The music speech, spoken at the public commencement in Cambridge, July the 6th, 1714. By Roger Long, M. A. Fellow of Pembroke-Hall. London: printed for T. Payne, at the Crown in Ioy-Lane; and W. Thurlbourn in Cambridge, [1730]. ESTC No. T166195. Grub Street ID 204438.
  • Morgan, J. The new political state of Great Britain. Including the public affairs of foreign courts. Compiled by J. Morgan. Vol. 1. Containing, January, February, March, April, May, June. In these Six Numbers are divers curious and genuine Pieces, not to be met with elsewhere. To which is annexed, an appendix: with notable memoirs of the Lives, Characters, Writings, &c. of several Persons of Note and Figure, chiefly in the Republic of Literature. With a compleat table of contents to the whole. London: printed by A. Campbell in King-Street, Westminster: for B. Creake, in Jermyn-Street, near St. James's Church; E. Curll, Bow-Street, Covent-Garden; T. Payne, in Ivy-Lane; J. Brindley, in New Bond-Street; J. Brotherton, in Cornhill; T. Worrall, at the Judge's Head, in Fleet-Street; J. Penn, Westminster-Hall, and R. Montagu, at the Post-Office, the Corner of Great Queen-Street, 1730. Where may be had any single Number, [1730]. ESTC No. T223251. Grub Street ID 245922.
  • Person of quality.. The brothers: or, treachery punish'd. Interspers'd with I. The Adventures of Don Alvarez. II. The Adventures of Don Lorenzo. III. Cupid and Bacchus, a Dramatic Entertainment. And, IV. The Adventures of Mariana, Sister to Don Alvarez. Written by a person of quality. London: printed for T. Payne, at the Crown in Ivy-Lane, near Pater-Noster-Row, 1730. ESTC No. T143952. Grub Street ID 190911.
  • The new political state of Great Britain. Including the public affairs of foreign courts. Compiled by Mr. Morgan. London [England]: printed by A. Campbell in Kingstreet, Westminster for B. Creake, in Jermyn Street; J. Hazard, near Stationer's Hall, J. Brotherton in Cornhill, T. Payne in Ivy-Lane, C. Norris in St. Paul's alley, R. Montagu, at the Post-office, the corner of Great Queen-street, J. Brindley in New Bond-street; and J. Penn in Westminster-Hall, 1730-. ESTC No. P6052. Grub Street ID 57812.
  • Thomson, Thomas. The tryal of Thomas Thomson and Lavinia Whitney, on an indictment for a conspiracy, in procuring one William Gibson, a sawyer, to personate Mr. Samuel Brooks, an eminent grocer, and marry the said Whitney, in his (the said Brooks) name, with a view and intent to subject him to the payment of her debts, and force him to allow her a separate maintenance. Try'd at Guildhall, on Monday the 2d day of November, 1730, before the Right Honourable Humphry Parsons, Esq; Lord-Mayor of the City of London; the Hon. Mr. Baron Thompson, Recorder of the said City; and other his Majesty's Justices, at an Adjournment of the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer. London: printed for T. Payne, at the Crown in Ivy-Lane, near Pater-Noster Row, 1730. ESTC No. N13919. Grub Street ID 3816.
  • The proceedings at the sessions of the peace, and oyer and terminer, for the City of London, and county of Middlesex, On Friday the 16th, Saturday the 17th, Monday the 19th, and Tuesday the 20th of January, 1730, in the Third Year of His Majesty's Reign. Being the Second Sessions in the mayoralty of the Right Honourable Sir Richard Brocas, knt. Lord Mayor of the City of London, in the Year 1730. No. II. for the said Year. London: printed for T. Payne, at the Crown in Ivy-Lane, near Pater-Noster-Row, M.DCC.XXX. [1730]. ESTC No. N65170. Grub Street ID 47082.
  • Croft, P.C.. A letter to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Chichester. Occasion'd by His Lordship's sermon on January 30. 1732. London: printed for T. Payne, at the Crown in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCXXXII. [1732]. ESTC No. N10484. Grub Street ID 496.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by Thomas Payne

  • A letter to the Right Honourable the Lord M---------. Relating to the affairs of the South-Sea Company. London: printed and sold by T. Payne, 1722. ESTC No. N34407. Grub Street ID 22788.
  • Defoe, Daniel. The history and remarkable life of the truly honourable Col. Jacque, commonly call'd Col. Jack, who was born a gentleman, put 'prentice to a pick-pocket, was six and twenty years a thief, and then kidnapp'd to Virginia. Came back a merchant, married four wives, and five [sic] of them prov'd whores; went into the wars, behav'd bravely, got preferment, was made colonel of a regiment, came over, and fled with the Chevalier, and is now abroad compleating a life of wonders, and resolves to dye a general. London: printed, and sold by J. Brotherton, at the Royal-Exchange; T. Payne, near Stationers-Hall; W. Mears, at the Lamb, and A. Dodd, at the Peacock without Temple-Bar; W. Chetwood, in Covent-Garden; J. Graves, in St. James's-Street; S. Chapman, in Pall-Mall, and J. Stagg, at Westminster-Hall, MDCCXXIII. [1723, i.e. 1722]. ESTC No. N33025. Grub Street ID 21547.
  • Defoe, Daniel. The history and remarkable life of the truly honourable Col. Jacque, commonly call'd Col. Jack, who was born a gentleman, put 'prentice to a pick-pocket, was six and twenty years a thief, and then kidnapp'd to Virginia. Came back a Merchant; was Five times married to Four Whores; went into the Wars, behav'd bravely, got Preferment, was made Colonel of a Regiment, came over, and fled with the Chevalier, is still abroad compleating a Life of Wonders, and resolves to dye a General. London: printed and sold by J. Brotherton, at the Royal-Exchange; T. Payne, near Stationers-Hall; W. Mears, at the Lamb, and A. Dodd, at the Peacock without Temple-Bar; W. Chetwood, in Covent Garden; J. Graves, in St. James's-Street; S. Chapman, in Pall Mall, and J. Stagg, at Westminster-Hall, MDCCXXIII. [1723]. ESTC No. T69662. Grub Street ID 293612.