Publications of R.W. for

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.W. for

  • Reyner, Edward. The properties of the righteous described. By Edward Reyner, late minister of the Gospel in Lincoln. London: printed by R.W. for Henry Mortlock, at the Sign of the White Hart in Westminster-Hall, 1668. ESTC No. R10163. Grub Street ID 58556.

Printed for R.W. for

  • A declaration of the Cornish-men concerning the Prince of Wales; and the resolution of the two famous Garrisons of Plymouth and Portsmouth, concerning the Parliament and Army, and their engagement, to live and die together, for the defence and preservation of religion, government, liberty, and ereedome [sic]. Also, the princes declaration and speech touching the death of his father; and his design and resolution touching the Kingdom of Scotland. Imprimatur, Theodore Jennings. [London]: Printed for R.W. for general satisfaction of the Kingdom, [1649]. ESTC No. R205953. Grub Street ID 82549.