Publications of W.W. 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.W. and

  • Baron, Robert. Erotopaignion or the Cyprian academy. By Robert Baron of Grayes Inne, Gent. London: printed by W.W. and are to be sold by J. Hardesty, T. Huntington, and T. Jackson at their shops in Duck-lane, 1647. ESTC No. R17390. Grub Street ID 67250.

Printed for W.W. and

  • The Parliament of women: with the merry laws by them newly enacted; to live in more ease, pomp, pride, and wantonness: but especially that they might have superiority, and domineer over their husbands. With a new way found out by them to cure any old, or new cuckolds, an how both parties may recover their credit and honesty again. London: printed for W.W. and are to be sold by Fra. Grove, at his shop on Snow-hill, neer the Sarazens-head, 1656. ESTC No. R209044. Grub Street ID 85261.