Publications of Thomas Whitaker

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 Thomas Whitaker

  • Gillespie, George. A treatise of miscellany questions: wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved. For the satisfaction of those, who desire nothing more, then to search for and find out precious truths in the controversies of these times. By Mr. George Gillespie, late minister at Edinburgh. Published by Mr. Patrik Gillespie, Minister at Glasgovv. Printed at Edinburgh: and are to be sold at London, by Thomas Whitaker, at the Kings Armes in Pauls Church-yard, 1649. ESTC No. R206106. Grub Street ID 82678.

Printed for Thomas Whitaker

  • Ross, Alexander. Mystagogus poeticus, or The Muses interpreter: explaning the historicall mysteries, and mysticall histories of the ancient Greek and Latine poets. Here Apollo's temple is again opened, the Muses treasurers the second time discovered, and the gardens of Parnassus disclosed more fully, whence many flowers of usefull, delightfull, and rare observations, never touched by any other mythologist, are collected. The second edition much inlarged. By Alexander Ross. London: printed by T[homas]. W[arren]. for Thomas Whitaker at the Kings Arms in Pauls Church-yard, M.DC.XLVIII. [1648]. ESTC No. R203395. Grub Street ID 80492.