Publications of J. Ware

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 J. Ware

  • Penn, William. Letter from William Penn, to his wife and children. Written a little before his first voyage to America, and found after his death, amongst some old manuscripts, never published. Whitehaven: printed by J. Ware & Son, M,DCC,LXXX;VI. [1786]. ESTC No. N19070. Grub Street ID 8495.

Sold by J. Ware

  • The sacred song of Deborah and Barak. Paraphrased from the fifth chapter of Judges. Whitehaven: printed and sold by J. Ware & Son, 1773. ESTC No. N21361. Grub Street ID 10738.

Printed for J. Ware

  • Buckingham, George Villiers. An account of a conference between His Grace, George late Duke of Buckingham, and Father Fitz-gerrald, an Irish priest: ... Faithfully taken by one of his domesticks. [Dublin]: Printed: for J. Ware in High-Street, over-against St. Michael's-Church, 1706. ESTC No. N1501. Grub Street ID 4746.