Publications of William Spiller

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 William Spiller

  • Groome, John. The golden cordial; or a sovereign medicine for the soul : being a composition of new prayers for every day in the week. With practical meditations Suited to every Prayer, in which is contained the whole Duty of Prayer. Also Prayers upon several Occasions, Ordinary and Extraordinary. To which are added Spiritual hymns upon several Divine and Practical Subjects. London: printed for William Spiller at the lower end of Red-Lyon street, over against the Cross-Keys, near the Fields, in Helborn, [1705]. ESTC No. T124172. Grub Street ID 174411.