Publications of P. Williamson

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 P. Williamson

  • Williamson, Peter. Williamson's directory for the city of Edinburgh, Canongate, Leith, and Suburbs: from June, 1780, to June, 1781. Containing, An Alphabetical List of the Names and Places of Abode of the Members of the College of Justice, public and private Gentlemen, Merchants, and other eminent Traders, Mechanics, and all Persons in public Business:-Where, at one View, you have a plain Direction, pointing out the Streets, Wynds, Closes, Lanes, and other Places of their Residence, in and about this Metropolis. Edinburgh: printed by P. Williamson; and sold at his penny-post office, East Corner of the Luckenbooths, M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]. ESTC No. T131752. Grub Street ID 180723.