Publications of William 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 William Lee

  • Martin, Benjamin. The description and use of a new invented pocket reflecting microscope, with a micrometer. ... Instructions for rightly using the microscope, telescope, &c. The whole illustrated with copper-plate figures. By Benj. Martin. Chichester: printed by William Lee, and sold by the author in Chichester, and Mr. John Noon in London, [1738?]. ESTC No. N48000. Grub Street ID 32621.

Printed for William Lee

  • An answer to a book, intituled, The doctrine and discipline of divorce, or, A plea for ladies and gentlewomen, and all other maried women against divorce. Wherein, both sexes are vindicated from all bonadge [sic] of canon law, and other mistakes whatsoever: and the unfound principles of the author are examined and fully confuted by authority of Holy Scripture, the laws of this land, and sound reason. London: printed by G[eorge]. M[iller]. for William Lee at the Turks-Head in Fleetstreet, next to the Miter Taverne, 1644. ESTC No. R11990. Grub Street ID 60206.

Author

  • Lee, William. An elegiac poem, sacred to the memory of a father. By the Rev. William Lee, Master of an Academy in Lower Tooting, Surry. London: printed for J. Buckland, Pater-Noster-Row, MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]. ESTC No. T68462. Grub Street ID 292649.