Publications of William Lane

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 Lane

  • Cross, J. C. The purse; or, benevolent tar: a musical drama, in one act, as performed at the Theatre Royal in the Hay-Market. By J. C. Cross. (the music by Mr. Reeve.). London: printed by William Lane, at the Minerva, Leadenhall-Street. Sold by J. Scatchard, Paternoster-Row; Wm. Miller, Bond-Street; and Knight and Triphook, Booksellers to his Majesty, St. James's-Street, M.DCC.XCIV. [1794]. ESTC No. N12365. Grub Street ID 2367.

Printed for William Lane

  • Dodsley, Robert. The economy of human life: translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin, with an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered, in a letter from an English gentleman, residing in China, to the Earl of Chesterfield. In two parts. London: printed for William Lane at the Minerva Press, 1798. ESTC No. N1236. Grub Street ID 2362.