Publications of W. Downing

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 by W. Downing

  • Ward, Edward. The delights 'of the bottle: or, The compleat vintner. With the humours of bubble upstarts. Stingy wranglers. Dinner spungers. Jill tiplers. Beef beggars. Cook teasers. Pan soppers. Plate twirlers. Table whitlers. Drawer biters. Spoon pinchers. And other tavern tormenters. A merry poem. To which is added, a South-Sea song upon the late bubbles. By the author of The cavalcade. London: printed by W. Downing in George-Court in St. John's-Lane, MDCCXX. [1720]. ESTC No. N28611. Grub Street ID 17836.