Publications of W. VVhitwood

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 W. VVhitwood

  • Shelton, Thomas. The art of short-writing compleated according to tachy-graphy, first composed by Mr. Thomas Shelton, and approved by both universities. In which variety of examples to each rule are drawn. Also Mr. Jeremy Rich his method of contraction by idea's [sic] and symbolical characters, improved to the rules and method of this, with great ease, and no less benefit and delight. And divers eminent histories out of the Old and New Testament are repeated in words at length, and also characters; together with a table, or copy of characters often to be writ over, and lastly, how to express the terms of the law in characters. London: printed for W. VVhitwood, at the Crown in Little-Brittain, 1696. ESTC No. R184051. Grub Street ID 73765.