Publications of W. 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 W. Rawlins

  • Meriton, George. A guide to surveyors of the high-ways, shewing the office and duty of such surveyors, with several cases and resolutions in law relating to the same. Collected and gathered out of publick acts of Parliament now in force; and out of the year-books, and other books of the municipal laws of this kingdom. With an abridgment of the statute of 22 H. 8. Chap. 5. for the repairing of bridges, with cases relating thereunto. And likewise a summary of the statutes made for paving, cleansing, &c. streets, lanes, &c. in London, and other towns and places. And an abstract of statutes made for the repairs of high-ways and bridges in particular places. Methodiz'd into short chapters for the ready finding out any matter contain'd in the book. By G. Meriton, Gent. London: printed by W. Rawlins and S. Roycroft, assigns of Rich. and Edw. Atkins esquires; for A. and J. Churchill in Pater-noster-Row, and Fr. Hillyard bookseller in York, 1694. ESTC No. R23533. Grub Street ID 106466.