Publications of William Gray

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 William Gray

  • Boston, Thomas. The sovereignty and wisdom of God displayed in the afflictions of men, together with a Christian deportment under them. Being the substance of several sermons on Eccles. vii. 13. Prov. xvi. 19. and I Pet. v. 6. To which are added some sermons on the nature of church-communion, from I Cor. x. 17. By the late Reverend and learned Mr. Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Ettrick. Edinburgh: printed by William Gray and sold at his house, at Magdalen's Chapel, within the Cowgate-Head, 1751. ESTC No. T211647. Grub Street ID 239177.

Printed for William Gray

  • Swift, Jonathan. A tale of a tub. Written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which are added, An account of a battle between the ancient and the modern books in St. James's Library; and, A discourse concerning the mechanical operation of the spirit. With the author's apology; and, explanatory notes, by W. Wotton, B.D. and others. Edinburgh: printed by W. Sands, A. Murray, and J. Cochran. For William Gray junior. Sold by G. Crawfurd, W. Gordon, and J. Brown, Edinburgh; J. Barry, Glasgow; and T. Glas, Dundee, MDCCL. [1750]. ESTC No. N13636. Grub Street ID 3534.

Author

  • Gray, William. Chorographia, or, A survey of Newcastle upon Tine the estate of this country under the Romans : the building of the famous wall of the Piets, by the Romans : the ancient town of Pandon : a briefe description of the town, walls, wards, churches, religious houses, streets, markets, fairs, river and commodities, with the suburbs : the ancient and present government of the town : as also, a relation of the county of Northumberland, which was the bulwark for England, against the introdes of the Scots : their many castles and towers : their ancient Cheviot-Hills, of Tinedale, and Reedsdale, with the inhabitants. Newcastle: Printed by S.B., 1649. ESTC No. R10141. Grub Street ID 58537.