Publications of Jhon Wight

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 Jhon Wight

  • Mascall, Leonard. A booke of the arte and maner how to plant and graffe all sortes of trees, how to set stones and sowe pepins, to make wilde trees to graffe on, as also remedies and medicines. With diuers other newe practises, by one of the Abbey of Sainct Vincent in Fraunce, practised with his owne handes: deuided into seuen chapters, as hereafter more plainly shal appere with an addition in the ende of this booke, of certaine Dutche practises, set forthe and Englished, by Leonard Mascall. Jmprinted at London: [By John Kingston], for Jhon Wight, Anno M.D.LXXXII. [1582]. ESTC No. S112419. Grub Street ID 132181.