Publications of W. Webster

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 W. Webster

  • Hoyle, Edmond. A short treatise on the game of whist. Containing the laws of the game: and also some rules, whereby a beginner may, with due attention to them, attain to the playing it well. Calculations for those who will bet the odds on any point of the score of the game then playing and depending. Cases stated, to shew what may be effected by a very good player in critical parts of the game. References to cases, viz. at the end of the rule you are directed how to find them. Calculations, directing with moral certainty, how to play well any hand or game, by shewing the chances of your partner's having 1, 2, or 3 certain cards. With variety of cases added in the appendix. By a gentleman. The second edition.. London]: Bath printed, and London reprinted [by James Mechell] for W. Webster near St. Paul's, and sold by all the booksellers and pamphlet shops in town and country, MDCCXLIII. [1743. ESTC No. T175497. Grub Street ID 212578.
  • Hoyle, Edmond. A short treatise on the game of whist. Containing the laws of the game: ... By a gentleman. [London]: Bath printed, and London reprinted for W. Webster, and sold by all the booksellers and pamphlet shops in town and country, 1743. ESTC No. T54087. Grub Street ID 280954.
  • Bettesworth, John. The judgment of Paris. A poem. By a student of Christ-Church College, Oxford. London: printed for W. Webster, 1743. ESTC No. N798. Grub Street ID 52886.
  • Hoyle, Edmond. A short treatise on the game of whist. Containing the laws of the game: and also some rules, whereby a beginner may, with due attention to them, attain to the playing it well. Calculations for those who will bet the odds on any point of the score of the game then playing and depending. Cases stated, to shew what may be effected by a very good player in critical parts of the game. References to cases, viz. at the end of the rule you are directed how to find them. Calculations, directing with moral certainty, how to play well any hand or game, by shewing the chances of your partner's having 1, 2, or 3 certain cards. With variety of cases added in the appendix. By a gentleman. London]: Bath printed, and London reprinted [by James Mechell] for W. Webster near St. Paul's, and sold by all the booksellers and pamphlet shops in town and country, MDCCXLIII. [1743. ESTC No. T106241. Grub Street ID 159409.