Publications of W. Leybourn

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 W. Leybourn

  • Bushnell, Edmund. The compleat ship-wright. Plainly and demonstratively teaching the proportions used by experienced ship-wrights, according to their custome of building; both geometrically and arithmetically performed. To which is added, certain propositions in geometry, the use of a diagonall scale, to draw a draught, with the making, graduating, or marking of a bend of moulds, and ordering of the same. The extraction of the square root, with a table of squares. Also, a way of rowing of ships, by heaving at the capstane, usefull in any ship becalm'd; with other things usefull in that art. By Edmund Bushnell, ship-wright. London: printed by W. Leybourn for George Hurlock, and are to be sold at his shop at Magnus Church corner in Thames-Street, neer London-Bridge, 1664. ESTC No. R13270. Grub Street ID 61382.