Publications of 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 W. and

  • Northcote, William. The marine practice of physic and surgery, including that in the hot countries. Particularly useful to all who visit the East and West Indies, or the coast of Africa. To which is added Pharmacopoeia marina. And some brief directions to be observed by the sea-surgeon in a engagement, &c. By William Northcote, Surgeon, ... In two volumes. . London: printed by W. and J. Richardson, for T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1770. ESTC No. N10323. Grub Street ID 331.

Sold by W. and

  • The rakish husband's garland. London: printed and sold by W. and C. Dicey, in St. Mary Aldermary Church-yard, in Bow-Lane, Cheapside. Sold also at their warehouse in Northampton, [1745?]. ESTC No. N12725. Grub Street ID 2706.

Printed for W. and

  • Bickerstaff, Isaac. Love in the city. A comic opera. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden. The words written, and the music compiled by the author of Love in a village. Dublin: printed for W. and W. Smith, P. Wilson, J. Exshaw, and Henry Saunders, 1767. ESTC No. N11275. Grub Street ID 1272.