Publications of Wil. Leybourn

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 Wil. Leybourn

  • Wing, Vincent. Geodætes practicus: or The art of surveying· Surveyed and laid out in a more accurate, plain and expeditious plat, then hath hitherto been performed. Being a worke very usefull for surveyors, architects, engineers, masons, carpenters, joyners, brick-layers, glasiers, painters, &c. And generally for all them that are ingeniously affected with such kinde of learning. The second edition corrected and enlarged: with the addition of a treatise, entituled, Examen Astronomiæ Carolinæ, being an answer to Mr. Tho. Streets Treatise of astronomy. By Vincent Wing. London: printed by Wil. Leybourn, for George Sawbridge, at the signe of the Bible upon Ludgate-hill, 1666. ESTC No. R186745. Grub Street ID 75294.