Publications of William Taylor

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 William Taylor

  • Burnet, Gilbert. The life & death of Sir Matthew Hale, Kt. sometime Lord Chief Justice of His Majesties Court of Kings Bench. Written by Gilbert Burnet, D.D. London: printed for William Taylor, 1682. ESTC No. R9142. Grub Street ID 129249.
  • Ratramnus. The book of Bertram the priest, concerning the body and blood of Christ in the sacrament. Written in Latin by the command of the Emperour Charles the Bald, between eight and nine hundred years ago. First translated into English in 1549. And now refined and corrected from th errors of the old translation. To which is added, two short discourses against purgatory and the invocation of saints. London: printed for William Taylor, and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, MDCLXXXVI [1686]. ESTC No. R17856. Grub Street ID 70247.