Publications of William Sleater

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 Sleater

  • Hoffmann, Friedrich. A treatise on the teeth; their nature, structure, formation, beauty, connection and use. In which the disorders ... are enumerated; and the remedies annexed: ... By Frederick Hoffman, ... Dublin: printed and sold by William Sleater, 1760. ESTC No. N14201. Grub Street ID 4089.

Sold by William Sleater

  • Garrick, David. Catharine and Petruchio, a comedy, in three acts, as performed at Drury-Lane Theatre-Royal: taken from Shakespear's Taming of the shrew. With alterations and additions by David Garrick, Esq;. Dublin: printed and sold by William Sleater at Pope's Head on Cork-Hill, MDCCLXII. [1762]. ESTC No. N26841. Grub Street ID 16202.

Printed for William Sleater

  • Garrick, David. Isabella; or, the fatal marriage. A tragedy, altered from Southern. Distinguishing also the variations of the theatre, as performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane. Regulated from the prompt-book, by permission of the managers, by Mr. Hopkins, prompter. Bell's Edition. Dublin: printed for William Sleater and Thomas Wilkinson, MDCCLXXXV. [1785]. ESTC No. T37419. Grub Street ID 267091.