Publications of Will. Leach

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 Will. Leach

  • Hesketh, Henry. The dangerous and almost desperate state of religion. Together with some things in order to its recovery. Represented in a discourse upon Ezekiel. XXXVII.3. By Henry Hesketh Rector of Charleswood in Surrey, and chaplain in ordinary to His Majesty. London: printed by Tho. James for Will. Leach at the Crown in Cornhill, near the Stocks-Market, 1679. ESTC No. R229292. Grub Street ID 101811.