Publications of William Gilbert

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 by William Gilbert

  • Cumberland, Richard. The mysterious husband: a tragedy. In five acts. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By Richard Cumberland, Esq. Dudlin[sic]: printed by William Gilbert, 1785. ESTC No. N26183. Grub Street ID 15560.

Printed for William Gilbert

  • The fable of the sun and frogs, in elegant Latin verse, applyed to the present state of affairs between the French and Dutch. With three several translations in English, by three several hands. The first nearer the Latin; the other two allowing themselves a greater liberty of phansie. London: printed for William Gilbert bookseller, at the half Moon in Pauls Church-yard, 1672. ESTC No. R213680. Grub Street ID 89076.

Author

  • Gilbert, William. Gilbert's law directory, for the year of our Lord 1775: containing an alphabetical list of the names and residence of attornies now practing [sic] in the several courts of Westminster; together with separate lists of the names and residence of the Marshal's or Palace-Court attornies, (set down as they Rank by Priority of Practice in that Court) and those of the Mayor's and Sheriffs court attornies. London: printed for the author, William Gilbert, and sold at No.2, Swithin's-Lane, Lombard-Street, London, near the General Post-Office, and at no other Place in England; where all Letters and written Orders, for the next Year's Directory (post paid) will be thankfully received, and carefully attended to, as promised in the following Advertisement., [1775]. ESTC No. T76824. Grub Street ID 299099.