Publications of William Dickie

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."

Sold by William Dickie

  • Dodsley, Robert. The oeconomy of human life. Translated from an Indian manuscript written by an ancient Bramin. To which is prefixed, an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered. In a letter from an English gentleman now residing in China, to the Earl of -,. Armagh: printed and sold by William Dickie, 1751. ESTC No. T206465. Grub Street ID 235927.

Printed for William Dickie

  • One of the Ministers of this present Church.. Just reflections upon a pamphlet, entitled, a modest reply to a letter from a friend to Mr. John M'millan. Part II. Containing reflections on the reply to the letter it self. ... By the author of the former part. Written in May, Anno 1710. Edinburgh: printed for William Dickie, and sold at his shop, 1712. ESTC No. N7754. Grub Street ID 52668.