Publications of J. Wells

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 J. Wells

  • Reflections on a dialogue between a Calvinistical preacher and a thief: wherein is shewn the unreasonableness of the Calvinistical decrees. London: printed for J. Wells, near the West-end of St. Pauls, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1699. ESTC No. R33985. Grub Street ID 116536.

Printed by and for, or by/for and sold by J. Wells

  • A., P.. Christian charity, or, Seasonable advice to a friend. Communicated by letter to a young gentleman, his kinsman, to perswade him to a virtuous course of life. By P.A. Gent. Author of the New-years-gift, or Advice to a Godson. London: printed, and are to be sold by J. Wells in London-house-[yard near] St [.] Paul's, 16[99]. ESTC No. R13152. Grub Street ID 61275.