Publications of William Rawlins

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 William Rawlins

  • Dalton, Michael. The country justice: containing the practice of the justices of the peace out of their sessions. Gathered for the better help of such justices of peace, as have not been much conversant in the Study of the laws of this realism. By Michael Dalton of Lincolns-Inn, Esq; And One of the Masters in Chancery. To which is now added, the duty and power of justices of peace in their sessions; an abridgment (under proper titles) of all statutes, relating thereunto: a large table of the principal matters herein contained; with two other tables, One of the chapters in this Book; And the other of such acts of Parliament, as concern the Office of a justice of peace. London: Printed by William Rawlins and Samuel Roycroft, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkyns, Esquires; and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, MDCCV. [1705]. ESTC No. N3415. Grub Street ID 22566.

Sold by William Rawlins

  • P., P. P.. The interest of creditors and debtors, or the duty that is incumbent on both, by the laws moral, civil, and divine. With their respective interest stated. Published, for their mutual benefit, by an impartial observer of the often severity of the former, and defection of the latter. London: printed, and are to be sold by William Rawlins over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhil, 1673. ESTC No. R229888. Grub Street ID 102285.

Printed for William Rawlins

  • Gouge, Thomas. The surest & safest way of thriving. Or, A conviction of that grand mistake in many, that what is given to the poor, is a loss to their estate; which is directly contrary as to the experiences of the charitable; so to the testimony of God's spirit in divers places of Scripture: as, Prov. 11. 24. There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; there is that with holdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. Prov. 19. 17. He that hath pitty on the poor, lendeth unto the Lord, and that which he hath given will he pay him again. Luke 6. 38. Give, and it shal be given to you again, good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over. Psalm 37. 26. He is ever merciful and lendeth, and his seed is blessed. By Thomas Gouge, minister of the Gospel. London: printed for William Rawlins at the Hand and Pen over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1673. ESTC No. R14065. Grub Street ID 62112.