Publications of W. Thurlbourn

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. Thurlbourn

  • Blomfield, Barrington. Of contending earnestly for the faith whic[h] was once deliver'd unto the saints. A sermon preached before the University of Cambridge, July 7th. 1728. By Barrington Blomfield, ... Cambridge: printed for W. Thurlbourn in Cambridge and sold by J. and J. Knapton and Rob. Knaplock London and Mr. Creighton in Ipswich, 1728. ESTC No. N11064. Grub Street ID 1056.
  • Long, Roger. The music speech, spoken at the public commencement in Cambridge, July the 6th, 1714. By Roger Long, M. A. Fellow of Pembroke-Hall. The third edition.. London: printed for T. Payne, at the Crown in Ivy-Lane; and W. Thurlbourn in Cambridge, [1730]. ESTC No. T166195. Grub Street ID 204438.