Publications of George Rose

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 George Rose

  • Meriton, Henry. A sermon preacht at the cathedral church in Norwich, upon the 11th of april, 1696. The day of His Majesties coronation. By Henry Meriton, Rector of Oxborough in Norfolk. London : printed for George Rose bookseller in Norwich, 1695 [i.e. 1696]. ESTC No. R180543. Grub Street ID 71546.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by George Rose

  • Scamler, Robert. The state or condition of the religious man on earth: being a sermon preached at great Yarmouth, in the county of Norfolk, June 6th. 77. Also, Gods love to laps'd man. In a sermon preached at Northwalsham, in Norfolk, on Christmas Day, 1676. By R.S. M.A. and rector of Taverham in the county of Norfolk. London : printed, and are to be sold by George Rose bookseller in Norwich, 1677. ESTC No. R220958. Grub Street ID 95186.

Author

  • Rose, George. The proposed system of trade with Ireland explained. London : [s.n.], Printed in the year M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]. ESTC No. T168048. Grub Street ID 206014.
  • Rose, George. The proposed system of trade with Ireland explained. Dublin: printed for Messrs. Byrne, White, and Marchbank, 1785. ESTC No. T85836. Grub Street ID 306121.
  • Rose, George. The proposed system of trade with Ireland explained. London : printed by and for John Nichols; and sold by T. Cadell, in the Strand ; G. G. and J. J. Robinson [sic], Pater-Noster Row ; and J. Sewell, in Cornhill, MDCCLXXXV. [1785]. ESTC No. T253. Grub Street ID 257747.
  • Rose, George. The trial of George Rose, Esq. Secretary to the Treasury, &c. for employing Mr. Smith, a publican in Westminster, upon a late Westminster election, and not paying him; on which he was, on Thursday the 21st of July, 1791, cast in the Court of King's Bench, by a special jury, in the sum of one hundred and ten pounds five shillings! Taken in short hand, by a barrister. Second edition.. London : printed for J. Ridgway, York-Street, St. James's Square 1791. ESTC No. N69893. Grub Street ID 50714.
  • Rose, George. The trial of George Rose, Esq. Joint Secretary to the Treasury, Clerk of the Parliament, Master of the Plea Office, and Member for the Borough of Christ Church. For employing Mr. Smith, a publican in Westminster, upon a late Westminster election, and not paying him; on which he was, on Thursday the 21st of July, 1791, cast in the Court of King's Bench, by a special jury, In the Sum of One Hundred and Ten Pounds, Five Shillings!. London : printed: and sold by all booksellers in town and country, MDCCXCI. [1791]. ESTC No. N13772. Grub Street ID 3673.
  • Rose, George. The trial of George Rose, Esq. Secretary to the Treasury, &c. for employing Mr. Smith, a publican in Westminster, upon a late Westminster election, and not paying him; ... Taken in short hand, by a barrister. . London : printed for J. Ridgway, 1791. ESTC No. T51687. Grub Street ID 278906.
  • Rose, George. A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and navigation, of Great Britain, since the conclusion of the peace in 1783. Manchester: printed by J. Harrop, 1792. ESTC No. N43467. Grub Street ID 29218.
  • Rose, George. One hundred pounds damages. George Rose, Esq. one of the secretaries of the Treasury, against William Williams, the printer, and Richard Tattersall, horse-dealer, and proprietor of The morning-post, for a libel, in which he is charged with having used the terrors of the excise laws as an instrument to subvert the freedom of election. Tried before the Right Honourable Lloyd Lord Kenyon, and a special jury, at Westminster, on Monday, July 9, 1792. Taken verbatim in short-hand. London : printed for J. Owen, No. 168, Piccadilly; and Symonds, Paternoster Row, 1792. ESTC No. N10573. Grub Street ID 581.
  • Rose, George. A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and navigation, of Great Britain, since the conclusion of the peace in 1783. Dublin: printed for P. Wogan, P. Byrne, J. Milliken, A. Grueber, W. Sleater, [and 6 others in Dublin], 1792. ESTC No. N32758. Grub Street ID 21322.
  • Rose, George. A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and navigation, of Great Britain, since the conclusion of the peace in 1783. The third edition, with additions.. London : printed for John Stockdale, 1792. ESTC No. T223980. Grub Street ID 246357.
  • Rose, George. A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and navigation, of Great Britain, since the conclusion of the peace in 1783. London : printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, M.DCC.XCII. [1792]. ESTC No. T29627. Grub Street ID 260982.
  • Rose, George. A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and navigation, of Great Britain, since the conclusion of the peace in 1783. A new edition, with additions.. London : printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, M.DCC.XCII. [1792]. ESTC No. T76977. Grub Street ID 299205.
  • Rose, George. The trial of George Rose, Esq. secretary to the treasury, &c. for employing Mr. Smith, a Publican in Westminster, upon a late Westminster election, and not paying him; On which he was, on Thursday the 21st of July, 1791, Cast in the Court of King's Bench, By a Special Jury, In the Sum of One Hundred and Ten Pounds Five Shillings! Taken in short hand, by a barrister. Third edition.. London : printed for J. S. Jordan, No. 166, Fleet Street, 1792. ESTC No. T174620. Grub Street ID 211701.
  • Rose, George. A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and navigation, of Great Britain, since the conclusion of the peace in 1783. The fourth edition, with considerable additions.. London : printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1793. ESTC No. T258. Grub Street ID 258034.
  • Rose, George. Observations on the act for the relief and encouragement of Friendly Societies: to which are added, forms of the several instruments necessary under the act: together with an abstract of the act. By the Gentleman who framed the Bill. London : printed by and for S. Brookes: and sold by J. Pridden, No. 100, Fleet-Street; W. Jones, No. 7, Albemarle-Street, Clerkenwell; and all the booksellers in town and country, MDCCXCIV. [1794]. ESTC No. T215914. Grub Street ID 241786.
  • Rose, George. Observations on the act for the relief and encouragement of friendly societies: To which are added, forms of the several instruments necessary under the act: together with an abstract of the act. By the Gentleman who framed the bill. London : Printed by and for S. Brookes: and sold by J. Pridden, No. 100, Fleet-street; W. Jones, No. 7, Albemarle-street, Clerkenwell; and all the booksellers in town and country, MDCCXCIV. [1794]. ESTC No. T41764. Grub Street ID 270581.
  • Rose, George. Etat de la Grande-Bretagne, relativement `a ses finances, son commerce, ses manufactures; et tableau de l'accroissement de son revenu & de son commerce, de 1792 `a 1799. Par George Rose, Esq. Premier secr'etaire de la tr'esorerie, et membre de la chambre des communes. Londres : De l'imprimerie de W. et C. Spilsbury, Snowhill, 1799. ESTC No. T183503. Grub Street ID 219915.
  • Rose, George. A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and manufactures, of Great Britain, from 1792 to 1799. By George Rose, Esq. Second edition.. London : printed for J. Wright, No. 169, Piccadilly; J. Hatchard, No. 173, Piccadilly; and J. Sewell, Cornhill, 1799. ESTC No. T107801. Grub Street ID 160811.
  • Rose, George. A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and manufactures, of Great Britain, from 1792 to 1799. By George Rose, Esq. Third edition.. London : printed for J. Wright, No. 169, Piccadilly; J. Hatchard, No. 173, Piccadilly; and J. Sewell, Cornhill, 1799. ESTC No. T106719. Grub Street ID 159816.
  • Rose, George. A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and manufactures, of Great Britain, from 1792 to 1799. By George Rose, Esq. From the corrected London edition, with an introduction by the Irish editor. Dublin: printed by Graisberry and Campbell, and sold by J. Milliken, and D. Graisberry, 1799. ESTC No. N62539. Grub Street ID 44872.
  • Rose, George. A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and manufactures, of Great Britain, from 1792 to 1799. By George Rose, Esq. Fifth edition.. London : printed for J. Wright, No. 169, Piccadilly; J. Hatchard, No. 173, Piccadilly; and J. Sewell, Cornhill, 1799. ESTC No. N32757. Grub Street ID 21321.
  • Rose, George. A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and manufactures, of Great Britain, from 1792 to 1799. London : Printed for J. Wright, No. 169, Piccadilly; J. Hatchard, No. 173, Piccadilly; and J. Sewell, Cornhill, 1799. ESTC No. T29624. Grub Street ID 260979.
  • Rose, George. A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and manufactures, of Great Britain, from 1792 to 1799. By George Rose, Esq. Sixth edition, with considerable additions.. London : printed for J. Wright, No. 169, Piccadilly; J. Hatchard, No. 173, Piccadilly; and J. Sewell, Cornhill, 1799. ESTC No. T29625. Grub Street ID 260980.
  • Rose, George. A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and manufactures, of Great Britain, from 1792 to 1799. By George Rose. Esq. Seventh edition, with considerable additions.. London : printed for J. Wright, No. 169, Piccadilly; J. Hatchard, No. 173, Piccadilly; and J. Sewell, Cornhill. [T. Burton, printer], 1799. ESTC No. T29626. Grub Street ID 260981.
  • Rose, George. A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and manufactures, of Great Britain, from 1792 to 1799. By George Rose, Esq. From the corrected London edition, with an introduction by the Irish editor. Dublin: printed by Graisberry and Campbell, and sold by J. Milliken, 32, Grafton-Street, and D. Graisberry, 33, Capel-Street, 1799. ESTC No. T111000. Grub Street ID 163474.
  • Rose, George. État de la Grande-Bretagne, relativement à ses finances, son commerce, ses manufactures; et tableau de l'accroissement de son revenu & de son commerce, de 1792 à 1799. Par George Rose, Esq. Premier Secrétaire de la Trésorerie, et Membre de la Chambre des Communes. a Londres : de l'imprimerie de W. et C. Spilsbury, Snowhill, 1799. ESTC No. T107094. Grub Street ID 160165.
  • Rose, George. A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and manufactures, of Great Britain, from 1792 to 1799. By George Rose, Esq. Fourth edition.. London : printed for J. Wright , NO. 169, Piccadilly ; J. Hatchard , NO. 173, Piccadilly ; and J. Sewell, Cornhill, 1799. ESTC No. N15843. Grub Street ID 5545.
  • Rose, George. A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and manufactures, of Great Britain, from 1792 to 1799. By George Rose, Esq. From the corrected London edition, with an introduction by the Irish editor. Dublin: printed by Graisberry and Campbell, and sold by J. Milliken, and D. Graisberry, 1799. ESTC No. T166821. Grub Street ID 204972.
  • Rose, George. A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and manufactures, of Great Britain, from 1792 to 1799. By George Rose, Esq. From the corrected London edition. With an introduction by the Irish editor. Dublin: printed by Graisberry, & Campbell, 1799. ESTC No. T167732. Grub Street ID 205770.
  • Rose, George. A brief examination into the increase of the revenue, commerce, and manufactures, of Great Britain, from 1792 to 1799. By George Rose, Esq. Dublin: printed by John Exshaw, 98, Grafton-Street, 1800. ESTC No. T122198. Grub Street ID 172921.