Publications of S.W. and

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 S.W. and

  • Howe, John. An ansvver to Dr. Stillingfleet's Mischief of separation, being a letter written out of the countrey to a person of quality in the city. Who took offence at the late sermon of Dr. Stillingfleet, Dean of S. Pauls; before the lord mayor. The second edition.. London: printed by S.W. and sold by S. Tydmarsh, at the sign of the Kings Head in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange, 1680. ESTC No. R215389. Grub Street ID 90445.

Printed for S.W. and

  • Englands monument of mercies, in her miracvlovs preservations from manifold plots, conspiracies, contrivances and attempts of forraigne and home-bred treacherous enemies, against the Parliament, kingdome, and purity of religion: discovering the time, persons and places of these attempts; with all their most remarkable proceedings. Published purposely to raise up the hearts of all the faithfull in the kingdome, unto a continued thankfulnesse unto God. [London]: Printed for S.W. and I.P. and are to be sold at their shops in great Woodstreet, and in thegreat [sic] Old-Baily, neere the Sessions-House, 1646. ESTC No. R210633. Grub Street ID 86753.