Publications of Richard Wilde

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 Richard Wilde

  • Shaw, Samuel. Grammatica Anglo-Romana: or, a syncritical grammar, teaching English youth the Latin tongue by few and easie rules, comparing English with Latin. With a comment for the use of riper years; containing the elegancies, and explaining the difficult phrases and idioms, which ar peciuliar to the Latin. Fitted to the sense of the learned Oxford-commentators upon Lilly's Grammar. By Samuel Shaw, master of the free-school in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicester-shire. London: printed for Richard Wilde, next door to the Star in the Old-Bayley, 1687. ESTC No. R187438. Grub Street ID 75714.