Publications of John Wilkes

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."

Sold by John Wilkes

  • A collection of all the hand-bills, squibs, songs, essays, &c. published during the late contested election for the county of Hants; between the Right Honourable Sir Richard Worsley, Bart. and Jervoise Clarke Jervoise, Esq. together with the poll of each division. Winchester: printed and sold by John Wilkes, 1780. ESTC No. T176526. Grub Street ID 213552.

Printed for John Wilkes

  • Baxter, Andrew. A letter from Mr. Baxter, ... To John Wilkes Esq;. London?: printed for John Wilkes, 1753. ESTC No. T109261. Grub Street ID 162068.