Publications of W. Jacob

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 for W. Jacob

  • The entring clerk's vade mecum. Being an exact collection of precedents for declarations and pleadings in most actions; especially such as are brought for, or against heirs, executors, or administrators: executrices, administratrices, and their husbands in personal actions. With variety of actions upon bills of exchange, pollicies of assurance, &c. And such process and parts of pleading as relate thereunto. Being very practicable and useful to all entring-clerks and attornies in his Majesties Courts of Kings-Bench and Common-Pleas. As also to the attornies and practicers of every inferiour court and county-judicature. A work more useful than any hitherto extant. Collected by William Brown, gent. London: printed by G. Sawbridge, W. Rawlins, and S. Roycroft; assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esqs; for W. Jacob at the Black Swan next Bernards Inn in Holborn, and C. Smith at the Angel in Fleetstreet, 1678. ESTC No. R23815. Grub Street ID 107668.