Publications of W. Wilde

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 W. Wilde

  • Deloney, Thomas. The pleasant history of John Winchcomb in his younger years called Jack of Newbery, the famous and worthy clothier of England; declaring his life and love: together with his charitable deeds and great hospitalities. And how he set continually five hundred poor people at work, to the great benefit of the common-wealth: worthy to be read and regarded. Now the fourteenth time imprinted, corrected, and inlarged by, T.D. Licensed and entred according to order. London: printed by W. Wilde, for Thomas Passenger, at the three Bibles on London-Bridge, and William Thackeray, at the Angel in Duck-lane, [1680?]. ESTC No. R214577. Grub Street ID 89794.