Publications of Guillaume Weekly

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 Guillaume Weekly

  • Beck, Cave. Le charactere universel, par lequel toutes nations peuvent comprendre les conceptions l'une de l'autre en lisant par une escriture commune à toutes leur propre langage maternelle. Invention profitable à touts et dont la pratique se peut acquerir en l'espace de deux heures, suivant les reigles de la grammaire. Lequel charactere est de forte disposé qu'il peut estre pronounce aussy bien qu'escrit. Par Cave Beck, M.A. Impriméà Londres: chez A. Maxey, pour Guillaume Weekly, libraire en Ipswich, 1657. ESTC No. R35306. Grub Street ID 117724.