Publications of W.M. and

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.M. and

  • Ogilby, John. The compleat solemnity of St. Georges Day: consisting in the morning preparation, and magnificent proceeding, the solemn coronation and coronation oath: with the solemnities of serving the Kings table at the royal feast: and ceremonies of the challenge made by the champion in Westminster-Hall. All described in a perfect narrative of the coronation of His late sacred Majesty Charles the Second, on Saint Georges Day, April the 23th. London: printed by W.M. and sold by Walter Davis in Amen-Corner, 1685. ESTC No. R27267. Grub Street ID 110452.

Printed for W.M. and

  • Game-law: or, A collection of the common and statute laws in force and use for preservation of the game, viz. 1. Of persons qualified to kill game, keep dogs, nets, &c. and of hunting, hawking, ... 2. Of water game, and of fish and fishing in rivers, ponds, &c. ... Likewis great variety of curious cases and resolutions of the courts at Westminster, &c. relating to game in general. Useful to all justices of the peace, lords of manors, constables, foresters, game-keepers, stewards of Leets, &c. By J. Giles, Gent. The seventh edition, to which are added forms of indictments, declarations, warrants, licences, grants, deputations, informations, and other English precedents.. London]: In the Savoy: printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edw. Sayer, Esq;) for W.M. and sold by J. Worrall at the Dove in Bell-Yard near Lincoln's Inn, 1740. ESTC No. N70766. Grub Street ID 51232.