Publications of R. Wood

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 R. Wood

  • Great Brittain's post, impartially communicating, ... London [England]: printed by R. Wood, 1653. ESTC No. P1323. Grub Street ID 55145.

Printed for R. Wood

  • Ford, Emanuel. The most pleasant history of Ornatus and Artesia shewing the tirannical and wicked reign of Theon, King of Phrigia . The sixth impression exactly corrected and amended.. London: Printed by E. Alsop for R. Wood for Thomas Vere and William Gilbertson, 1662. ESTC No. R30463. Grub Street ID 113310.