Publications of W. Wilkie

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 W. Wilkie

  • Highmore, Joseph. Observations on a pamphlet, entitled, "christianity not founded on argument." By a Christian freethinker, Who apprehends that Infidels cannot be effectually answered, on any Principles less general, than those which he has adopted. The only apology he can make for publishing (at this distance of time) animadversions on a pamphlet printed so long since, is, that he has just now (and never before) perused it with that design. London: printed for W. Wilkie, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCLXV. [1765]. ESTC No. T101508. Grub Street ID 155386.