Publications of William Wilson

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 Wilson

  • Smith, Samuel. Davids repentance: or A plain and familiar exposition of the 51 Psalm; first preaced, and now published for the benefit of Gods Church. Wherein every Christian may set before his eyes the pattern of unfeigned repentance: likewise exhorting every man to labour for repentance, before sickness and death seize upon them: for after death there is no repentance to be had or expected. The seventeenth edition. Newly revised and profitably amplified by the author Samuel Smith, late Preacher of the Word at Pritlewell in Essex. London: printed for W[illiam]. Wilson, dwelling in Little St. Bartholmewes near Smithfield, 1657. ESTC No. R184326. Grub Street ID 73930.
  • Dryden, John. A poem upon the death of His late Highness, Oliver, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, & Ireland. Written by Mr. Dryden. London: printed for William Wilson [i.e. Jacob Tonson]; and are to be sold in Well-Yard, near Little St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1659. [i.e. 1693?]. ESTC No. R1635. Grub Street ID 64213.