Publications of W. Leybourne.

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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. Leybourne.

  • Gunter, Edmund. The works of Edmund Gunter: containing the description and use of his sector, cross-staff, bow, quadrant, and other instruments: with a canon of artificial sines and tangents, to a radius of 10,00000 [sic] parts, and logarithms from an unite to 10000, with the use thereo in arithmetick, geometry, astronomy, navigation, and dialling. Diligently corrected by Henry Bond, practitioner in the mathematicks, in the Bulwark neer the Tower. The fourth edition. To which is added, the description and use of another sector with more lines, differing from that of Mr. Gunter, both in form and manner of working. As also, of a quadrant fitted with new lines serving the former uses, and many other, more accurately. Both invented and written by Mr. Sam. Foster sometime professour of Astronomy in Gresham-Colledge London: now published from his manuscripts: the whole work examined, and in many places enlarged, by W.L. London: printed by W. L[eybourne]. for Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold at the Marygold in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1662. ESTC No. R13837. Grub Street ID 61908.