Publications of John Whiston

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 for John Whiston

  • Barbot, John. The tryal of John Barbot, attorney at law, for the murder of Mathew Mills, Esq; At a court of oyer and terminer and general goal-delivery, held at the town of Basseterre, in and for the island of St. Christopher, on Friday the 5th day of January, 1753, before The Honourable William Mathew Burt, Esquire, President of His Majesty's Council of the said Island, and others, His Majesty's Justices of Goal-Delivery. To which is added, the prisoner's narrative of the cause of the difference between Mr. Mills and himself, and the several Steps that led from thence, to the Commission of the Fact for which he suffered. Published by Permission of the Judges. London: printed for John Whiston and Benjamin White, in Fleet Street, MDCCLIII. [1753]. ESTC No. N13859. Grub Street ID 3756.