Publications of William Griffin

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 Griffin

  • Friend to truth.. A full and candid answer to a pamphlet called A genuine and succinct narrative of a scandalous, obscene, and exceedingly profane libel, entitled, An essay on woman. By a friend to truth. The second edition.. London: printed and sold by William Griffin, in Fetter lane, MDCCLXIII. [1763]. ESTC No. N1331. Grub Street ID 3245.

Printed for William Griffin

  • The perils of poetry: an epistle to a Friend. Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge. London: printed for William Griffin [in London], in Catharine-Street, in the Strand; and Fletcher and Hodgson at Cambridge, MDCCLXVI. [1766]. ESTC No. T4719. Grub Street ID 275162.