Publications of Richard Webster

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 Richard Webster

  • Norwood, Richard. Trigonometrie: or, The doctrine of triangles: divided into two books. The first shewing the mensuration of right lined triangles: the second of spherical, with the grounds and demonstrations thereof. Both performed by that late and excellent invention of logarithms, ... Whereunto is annexed (chiefly for the use of seamen) a treatise of the application thereof, ... With exact tables of the suns declination, newly calculated: and tables of the right ascension and declination of some eminent fixed stars, with the true times of the coming to the meridian at four of the clock in the morning, fitted for the present season, and may serve for many years without any alteration. Also other necessary tables used in navigation. By Richard Norwood, reader of the mathematicks. This eight edition being diligently corrected, in divers difficult places explained; new tables of the stars right ascensions and declinations added, and the whole work very much enlarged, by the author himself. London: printed by R[ichard]. W[ebster]. for William Fisher, at the Postern near Tower-Hill, T. Passenger, at the three Bibles on London-Bridge, and R. Smith, at the sign of the Bible in Cornhill, 1685. ESTC No. R1782. Grub Street ID 70020.