Publications of W.D., Novemb.

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.D., Novemb.

  • Stafford, Richard. The great benefits of Christ to all that believe on and obey him being a treatise on Hebrews 2, 15 : wherein it is shewed and made known how people may be freed and delivered from the slavish fear of death, whereby they are subject to bondage throughout their life-time : and also how they may be saved and preserved from the evil and danger of death, when it shall approach nigh, and come actually upon them / by Richard Stafford. London: Printed by W.D., Novemb. the 20th, 1693. ESTC No. R38270. Grub Street ID 120392.