Publications of W. Thackery

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 W. Thackery

  • Martin, Joseph. The huntsmans delight. Or, The forresters pleasure. The dear are wounded but they are not slain yet so they're wounded that they are or' etain and in their taking pitty it is shown for why 'twas thought that some there was with fawn. The keepers swore great oaths upon their lives they'd be as kind to them as men are to their wives the pleasant sport this ditty doth declare of the kind huntsmen and the fellow dear tune of amongst the leaves so green a. [sic] By J.M. London]: Printed for W. Thacker[y a]nd T. Passinger, [between 1686 and 1688. ESTC No. R180398. Grub Street ID 71459.