Publications of William Wilson

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 William Wilson

  • Isaacson, Henry. The summe & substance of Christian religion, set downe in a catechisticall way, by H.J. Printed at London: by W[illiam]. Wilson, and are to be sold by Richard Thrale at Pauls gate at the signe of the Crosse-keyes, 1647. ESTC No. R178950. Grub Street ID 70574.
  • Malvezzi, Virgilio. Considerations upon the lives of Alcibiades and Corialanus [sic]. By Marques Virgilio Malvezzi, one of the supreme councell of warre, to his Catholick Majestie. Dedicated to the King, his master. Englished by Robert Gentilis, gent. London: printed by William Wilson for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at the Princes Armes in St Pauls Church-yard, 1650. ESTC No. R12183. Grub Street ID 60396.
  • England and Wales. Parliament.. The form of church-government to be used in the Church of England and Ireland: agreed upon by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, after advice had with the Assembly of Divines. Die Martis 29. August. 1648. Ordered by the Lords assembled in Parliament, that the form of church-government to be used in the Church of England and Ireland, bee forthwith printed and published. Ioh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum. London: printed by W[illiam]. Wilson for John Wright at the Kings Head in the Old Bayley, 1652. ESTC No. R171983. Grub Street ID 66015.
  • Cotton, John. A briefe exposition with practicall observations upon the whole book of Ecclesiastes. By that late pious and worthy divine, Mr. John Cotton, Pastor of Boston in New-England. Published, by Anthony Tucknfy [sic], D.D. master of St. Johns Colledge in Cambridge. London: printed by W[illiam]. W[ilson]. for Ralph Smith at the Bible in Cornhill, 1657. ESTC No. R14564. Grub Street ID 62580.