Publications of W. Onley

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. Onley

  • Johnson, Richard. The famous history of the seven champions of Christendom. The second part. Likewise shewing the princely prowess, noble atchievements, and strange fortune of St. George's three sons, the lively sparks of nobility. The combates and turnaments of many valiant knights, the loves of many gallant ladies, the tragedies of mighty potentates. Also, the manner and places of the honourable deaths of the seven champions, being so many tragedies; and how they came to be called the seven saints of Christendom. London: printed by W. Onley, for Ric. Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, and B. Walford, MDCXCVI. [1696]. ESTC No. R13277. Grub Street ID 61389.