Publications of William Rawlins

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 Rawlins

  • Leonard, William. Reports and cases of law: argued and adjudged in the courts at Westminster, in the times of the late Queen Elizabeth, and King James. In four parts. The second impression, carefully corrected, with the addition of many thousand of references, never before printed. Collecte by a learned professor of the law, William Leonard, Esquire, then of the honourable Society of Grays-Inn. Published by William Hughes of Grays-Inn, Esquire. With alphabetical tables of the names of the cases, and of the matter contained in each part. London: printed by William Rawlins, Samuel Roycroft, and Miles Flesher, assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins, Esquires. For H. Twyford, H. Herringman, T. Basset, R. Chiswell, B. Griffin, C. Harper, T. Sawbridge, J. Place, and S. Keble, MDCLXXXVII. [1687]. ESTC No. R19612. Grub Street ID 77192.