Imprint

The printed statement at the end of a book or paper of the name and address of its printer. The Newspapers, Printers, &c., Act (32 and 33 Vic, c. 24), while it repealed many of the then existing penal enactments against printers, left in force the Act 2 & 3 Vic, c. 12, sec. 2, which imposed a penalty upon printers for not printing their name and residence on every paper or book, and on persons publishing the same. The words are:—

Every person who shall print any paper or book whatever which shall be meant to be published or dispersed, and who shall not print upon the front of every such paper, if the same shall be printed on one side only, or upon the first or last leaf of eyery paper or book which shall consist of more tlian one leaf, in legible characters, his or her name and usual place of abode or business, and every person who shall publish or disperse, or assist in publishing or dispersing, any printed paper or book, on which the name and place of abode of the person printing the same shall not be printed as aforesaid, shall for every copy of such paper so printed by him or her forfeit a sum not more than five pounds.

Another section provides, that in the case of books or papers printed at the University Press of Oxford, or the Pitt Press of Cambridge, the printer, instead of printing his name thereon, shall print the following words: “Printed at the University Press, Oxford,” or “The Pitt Press, Cambridge,” as the case may be. See Laws relating to Printers.