Publications of for William

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 for William

  • Collinges, John. Vindiciæ ministerii evangelici; a vindication of the great ordinance of God, viz. A gospel-ministry; in which these ensuing questions are shortly discust. 1. Whether under the gospell there be such a function as the ministry; ... 2. Whether no more be required for this function, to authorize men ordinarily, ... 3. Whether those that ordinarily preach, open and apply scriptures, must be set apart by the Presbytery. 4. Whether the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery can be omitted in scripturall ordination without sin. 5. Whether Christians that make a conscience of hearing the Word of God, ... but meerly gifted, &c. In which, the affirmative part of the first and third questions, and the negative part of the three others is maintained, and the judgments of former divines in them held forth; and all the considerable arguments on the contrary parts brought by Anabaptists, Socinians, Erastians, Separatists, &c. are answered, and what is already answered to them by Zanchy, Aretius, Che. [Norwich]: Printed for for William Franklin in Norwich, 1652. ESTC No. R176260. Grub Street ID 68870.