Publications of John Wickins

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 John Wickins

  • England and Wales. Parliament.. The honor and courage of our English Parliaments in the raign of Queen Elizabeth of ever blessed memory, in defending of her, and the Protestant religion. Expressed in some of the preambles of the acts for subsidies, granted to that famous princess. That man who doth not defend his religion and country, (having the law on his side) will either through slavish fear, or for base interest, (when times change) most certainly give up and sacrifice both. London: printed for John Wickins; at the White-Hart against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet street, 1681. ESTC No. R27416. Grub Street ID 110580.