Publications of I. VVright

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 I. VVright

  • The complaining shepherde[ss] satisifed at last: or, love lost and found again, being a most pleasant new play-song. Phillis mourning long, at last does find a lover far more then her former kind, who to her dear embraces is assign'd, which unto virgins may a maxim be, not to lament tedious virginity, for if one fails the next more kind and fre[e.] To the tune of, Ah! Jenny Gin, &c. London]: Printed for I. VVright, I. Clarke VV. Thackeray and T. Passenger, [1681 - 1684. ESTC No. R232920. Grub Street ID 104552.