Publications of William. Downing

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. Downing

  • Ward, Thomas. The errata to the Protestant Bible, or, The truth of their English translations examin'd, in a treatise shewing some of the errors that are to be found in the Protestant English translations of the sacred scripture, against such points of Catholick doctrine as are in debate between them and the Church of Rome. In which also, from their mis-translating the twenty third verse of the fourteenth chapter of the acts of the apostles, the consecration of Dr. Matthew Parker, the first Protestant arch-bishop of Canterbvry, is occasionally consider'd. By T.W. . London: printed by W[illiam]. Downing, and sold by most booksellers, 1688. ESTC No. R186256. Grub Street ID 75011.