Publications of William Lucas

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 Lucas

  • Lambert, Ralph. A sermon, preach'd Nov. the 12th. 1702. Being the day, appointed for a publick Thanksgiving to Almighty God: for the Glorious Successes of Her Majesties Arms, by Sea and Land, in the parish-church of St. Giles's in the Fields. By Ralph Lambert, D. D. Publish'd at the Request of the Gentlemen of the said Parish, in Vestry. London: printed for William Lucas, at the Sign of the Temple near the Inner Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet, and sold by John Nutt near Stationers Hall, 1703. ESTC No. N37222. Grub Street ID 25177.