Publications of W. Lee

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. Lee

  • The Sussex weekly advertiser, or Lewes journal. Lewes [England]: printed by W. Lee, where advetisements of a moderate length are taken in at 2s. 6d. each; and printing in general is performed in the neatest and most correct manner. Advertisements are also taken in by the men who carry this paper. ESTC No. P63. Grub Street ID 58023.

Printed for W. Lee

  • Dod, John. Ten sermons, tending chiefly to the fitting of men for the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper. Wherein, amongst many other holy instructions, the doctrines of sound repentance and humiliation, and of Gods speciall favours unto penitent sinners, and worthy communicants, are largely and effectually handled. The sixe first, by J. Dod. The four last, by R. Cleaver. Whereunto is annexed a plain and learned metaphrase on the Epistle to the Colossianss written by a godly and judicious preacher. There is also set before the sermons, a short dialogue of preparation, containing the chief points that concern the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper: taken for the most part, out of the sermons following: and collected into a method, for the benefit and ease of those that desire direction in this matter. Newly printed: and in this edition are many faults amended which had escaped former impressions. Also there is now added the authors life: collected 1661, with his effigies.. London: printed by S. Griffin for W. Lee, at the Turks head in Fleet-street, over against Fetter-Lane, 1661. ESTC No. R10152. Grub Street ID 58546.