Publications of Sir. William Hope

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 Sir. William Hope

  • Howell, James. The vision: or A dialog between the soul and the bodie. Fancied in a morning-dream. London: printed for William Hope at the Blue Anchor on the north side of the Royal Exchange, anno Dom. 1651 [i.e. 1652]. ESTC No. R11503. Grub Street ID 59783.

Author

  • Hope, Sir. William. The compleat fencing-master: in which is fully describ'd all the guards, parades and lessons belonging to the small-sword; as, also the best rules for playing against either Artists or others, with blunts or sharps. Together With Directions how to Behave in Single Combat on Horse-Back: Illustrated with Figures Engraven on Copper-Plates, representing the most necessary Postures. The third edition. By Sir W. Hope, Kt. and Lieutenant Governor of the Castle of Edinburgh. London: printed, and are to be sold by W. Taylor, at the Ship in Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCX. [1710]. ESTC No. N27837. Grub Street ID 17079.