Publications of William Welby

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 William Welby

  • Downame, John. The Christian vvarfare. Wherein is first generallie shewed the malice, power and politike stratagems of the spirituall enemies of our saluation, Satan and his assistants the world and the flesh; with the meanes also whereby the Christian may withstand and defeate them. And afterwards more speciallie their particular tentations ... are expressed and answered. Written especially for their sakes who are exercised in the spirituall conflict of tentations, and are afflicted in conscience in the sight and sense of their sinnes. By I. Dovvname, Batcheler in Diuinitie and preacher of Gods word. At London: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, for William Welby, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Churchyard at the signe of the Swan, 1612. ESTC No. S110215. Grub Street ID 130317.