Publications of William Bathoe

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 William Bathoe

  • Vertue, George. A description of the works of the ingenious delineator and engraver Wenceslaus Hollar, disposed into classes of different sorts; with some account of his life. By George Vertue, A Member of the Society of Antiquaries. The second edition, with additions.. London: printed for William Bathoe, at his Circulating Library in the Strand, near Exeter Exchange, 1759. ESTC No. T14147. Grub Street ID 188992.
  • Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford. The castle of Otranto, a Gothic story. The third edition.. London: printed for William Bathoe in the Strand, M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]. ESTC No. N2658. Grub Street ID 15948.