Publications of W.D. and

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.D. and

  • Barton, William. A view of many errors and som gross absurdities in the old translation of the Psalms in English metre; as also in som other translations lately published: shewing how the Psalms ought to be translated, to be acceptable and edifying. Together with sundry epigramms and suffrages of many godly and learned men in behalf of the author's translation, and reasons for publishing the same. By W.B. M.A. and minister of the Gospel. London: printed by W.D. and are to be sold by F. Eglesfield and Thomas Vnderhill in Paul's Church-yard; and F. Tyton, at the three Daggers neer the Temple in Fleet-street, M. DC. LV. [1655 i.e. 1656]. ESTC No. R206553. Grub Street ID 83051.

Printed for W.D. and

  • Cerdan, comte de. Jean-Paul. Europe a slave, unless England break her chains. Discovering the grand designs of the French-Popish-Party in England for several years past. The second edition.. London: printed for W.D. and are to be sold in London and Westminster, 1681. ESTC No. R173638. Grub Street ID 67045.